The Innovation Mantra
Tim Kastelle Today I ran across this quote from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: As for the future, your…
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Finding Disruptive Ideas
We often talk about how innovation occurs along a spectrum. At one end there are…
Read MoreWhy Experimenting Beats Benchmarking
In his excellent new book Why the West Rules – For Now Ian Morris tells…
Read MoreWhere Do Bad Ideas Come From?
There’s been a lot of buzz about Steven Johnson’s book Where Good Ideas Come From.…
Read MoreEnough of the Commercialization Gap Myth (Already)!
John Saul Eslake is one of Australia’s most respected bank economists. In his tenure as the…
Read MoreJane McGonigal Innovates Productivity
On a day when the postperson yet again failed to deliver Jane McGonigal’s new book,…
Read MoreContrasts Drive Innovation
In his thought-provoking new book Whole Earth Discipline, Stewart Brand has this interesting passage: In…
Read MoreThe Problem With Solutions
The problem with solutions is that answers stop thinking, as Chuck Frey says in a…
Read MoreShould You Only Execute Good Ideas?
The obvious answer to the question in the title is yes, right? But I’m not…
Read MoreSustaining Your Small World Network
Two weeks ago I wrote a post on what the research is saying about small…
Read MoreWho Makes Education?
Too often people think about things happening to them, rather than thinking about how they…
Read MoreCan Your Friends Make You More Innovative?
Social influence is important to innovation. One of the critical steps in innovating is getting…
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