Make Milkshakes For Your Customers
I probably should not admit this – as an innovation professional – but I just finished reading “Contending Against Luck,” Clayton Christensen’s last work on Innovation. If you aren’t aware, he is…
June 21, 20207 Tips For Dealing With The Coronavirus And Future Black Swans
There is a tremendous amount of misinformation out there on this pandemic. Much of it is designed, in my view, to throw people into a panic. In our practice, we have a…
March 29, 2020Expose Yourself To New Everything And You Generate Real Innovation
To innovate – you must absorb many different sources of information – especially in the areas not in which you are trying to innovate in; let those percolate in your brain, then…
April 21, 2019Elon Musk: Build Products That Bring Joy.
If you look at the outcome from the epic two and a half hour interview that Elon Musk gave Joe Rogan, you’d think that all they did was smoke weed and drink.…
September 23, 2018How to get the best ideas out of people? Cheat.
Prior to the widespread adoption of the web and the internet, I used to run something called a Bulletin Board System (BBS), where we would use phone lines to communicate on message…
July 29, 2018Problem Solving: It’s What We Humans Do Best.
The Case For “Solutioning” As an innovator, disruptor and creator of new things, I love coining and using new words which can more effectively describe something, and solutioning is one of them.…
March 25, 2018