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Use Foresight To Stop Cold The Disaster Of Unintended Consequences
Our world is rife with many examples of unintended consequences. Is it really possible that most people don’t think about the far-reaching effects of their actions and only focus on the short-term…
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3 Steps To Discover The Secrets Of Great New Products
Many startup founders (or corporate innovators) have an issue with the concept of an MVP. The definition of a Minimum Viable Product varies greatly – but in the purest sense, it should be…
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The Future Is More Important Than Ever
One of the most challenging things to convince people is the essential need to “look farther out.” Most people are so focused on the very near term – looking no more than…
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Party For Results, Not Rank
Looking to make your business more innovative? Stop celebrating promotions. The corporate world is an interesting place. For the longest time, it was mired in a hierarchical structure, with workers reporting to…
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You Have to Have Something to Knock Down
Have you ever been in those meetings where discussion keeps going around and around, and you can sense that you are going nowhere and that unless someone intervenes, this entire meeting will…
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Denying Your True Human Nature? Here’s What Happens When You Do
What are humans really like? I think we all, deep down, know the answer to that question. Yet, we still hold out hope that humans can change their nature. We feel that since…
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How To Incentivize Disruptive Innovation
In the book, Loonshots, the author describes the origin of some of the most spectacularly successful institutions of our time as being generated by specific kinds of individuals in particular types of…
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What Will You Do Next Year?
Many organizations are planning for 2020. Some organizations call this “strategic planning,” however since the plan is only a year out, I’d argue that you might not call it “strategic,” although, in…
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Ask Not If Your Idea Can Make Money, Ask If It Can Help Humans.
A common refrain that I hear from individuals at some of the companies that we’ve worked with in the past (and some prospects who ultimately decide not to work with us) is…
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How 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…
