Focus on Your Core Vision
Have You Strayed From Your Focus? I’ve read Wired magazine for over 20 years – I remember seeing my very first issue in a very eclectic bookstore in Toronto (now sadly gone)…
August 31, 2017Blockchain, VR and AI, Innovation Oh My?!
Innovation: Tech Not Necessarily Required For some reason, many people feel that innovation is not innovation unless it’s some innovative technology which is included somewhere above – or is at least being…
August 29, 2017To Innovate, You Need To Keep Pushing
More Than A Big Bang For those who believe that universe was created during a big bang event, once the explosion occurred, we figured that the inertia created by that event would…
August 24, 2017Whose Fault Is It If You Aren’t Innovating?
Why Aren’t You Innovating? It’s been said that when it comes to innovation, those at the very top get it – not a day goes by when an executive out there is…
August 22, 2017The Future Of Work: Welcome to All Live, All the Time
The World Of Work Is Now 24/7 No Matter Your Business Remember downtime? You know, evenings and weekends where your typical 9-5 job would let you have some spare time? Those days…
August 17, 2017How To Do Diversity Right (Hint: Its Essential To Innovation)
Diversity Is Key, But Of Mind, Not Body Over the last few days, a memo has been circulating from a fired Google employee regarding hiring, biological differences between humans, and why some…
August 15, 2017The Future Of The Job Interview
Job Interviews are so 20th Century Up until technology made it possible, we only really had three modes of work. You had the “job economy”, where someone would get a job with…
August 10, 2017How To Provide Exceptional Service? Be Human
Going Above and Beyond In Service We’ve all heard those (possibly) apocryphal stories of incredible customer service, where a (typically lowly) clerk, worker or customer service rep just goes way beyond the…
August 8, 2017Ways We Innovate: Repurposing
Repurposing: It’s Not Just For Trash, Anymore One of the most effective exercises that we use in our innovation sessions is to actively take an object – any object – any object…
August 3, 2017The Death of Reciprocity: The Rise Of Cohort Taker
If You Stop Getting, Will You Stop Giving? Where’s Reciprocity? In a previous post, I discussed how many principles of the way that human beings are influenced have changed since they were…
August 1, 2017