Innovation is about Solving Mysteries, not Puzzles
Innovation is about solving problems in a unique and beneficial way, but how you approach the problem has significant impact on how successful and sustainable…
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Your Lack of Innovation is Costing You More Than You Realize
Business leaders are fairly confident they know the cost of “business as usual.” They’re good at asking, “what will it cost to innovate,” “what’s the…
How to Take Advantage of Future Trends Earlier Than Your Competition
The future doesn’t just appear, it is constantly developing. By looking for, by listening for clues to how the future is developing you won’t be…
Leadership is a Foul-weather Job
Great leadership looks easy when it’s smooth sailing and everybody’s happy. It’s during storms that a leader’s true colors are revealed. The environment that both…
How to Avoid a Failed Product Launch
Market research is valuable. It supplies you with statistics about segment spend and customer buying habits. It also helps you understand what your customers say…
Innovation is a Team Sport
Great innovations are not achieved by solitary work, created in a vacuum or emerge fully mature when first conceived. Innovations are not the product of…
Disrupt Yourself before Anyone Else has a Chance
When trying to solve new problems or capitalize on new opportunities, individuals and organizations often look inward and apply familiar mental models, tools and techniques…
Reading Children’s Books Taught Me How to Run a Business
In Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice is meandering through the woods when she comes upon a cat and asks, “Would you tell me,…
