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Why We Can’t Make Humans Happy
Many people have lamented that over the last half-century, innovation has stalled. The look at the end of the 19th century and the start of the 20th century and marvel at the…
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f**k “innovation!”
I don’t know about you, but I’m just about ready to say the above, loudly and clearly, uncensored. I am about to give up on the whole idea of helping corporates to…
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why do i do this?
Once upon a time, a corporate innovator was having trouble bringing innovation into their organization. No matter how hard they tried to guide the culture of the organization to be more innovative…
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Stop Copying Me: Desire And Design Thinking
Today we’re talking about mimetic theory. It’s an interesting philosophy that I only just came across. When I first heard the name, it had to do with memes because memes are powerful…
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Why You Should Ignore The Past
I love the “success literature” space – it’s actually pretty humorous. I think of all of the books I’ve read; there are maybe three that I can say actually “tell it like…
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eyeing the life patterns of successful innovators
If there is one thing that I have noticed after interviewing hundreds of humans for my podcast is that most people who are in the innovation space end up there due to…
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How Do You Feel About Taking Risks?
After facing the future and feeling empowered to change yourself or your organization to design your ideal future, one of the next steps in my Foresight Leadership program is a risk assessment.…
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punching the 10000 hour myth in the jaw
You’ve heard it. We’ve all heard it. Countless business books and life books have touted the “10,000 hours to mastery” rule. I think Malcolm Gladwell started it all – or maybe it…
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execution matters, but so do ideas
You’ve probably heard a variation of this quote a thousand times: Ideas don’t matter. Ideas are a dime-a-dozen. Execution matters. This statement, like Schroedinger’s Cat being both dead and alive, is both…
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Will Words Will Break Your Bones?
Back in high school, I took a creative writing class in my Junior year because, at one point, I thought I was going to become a writer. That class was a total…
