Innovation Aphorisms
Tim Kastelle Over the weekend I read Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s thought-provoking book The Bed of Procrustres. It’s…
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Risk Averse, or…?
Here is something I ran across yesterday that confuses me quite a bit. Take a…
Read MoreMake Your Own Map to Make Novel Connections
Connecting ideas is the fundamental creative act in innovation. If this is the case, how…
Read MoreInnovation Obstacle: Bureaucracy?
What is the innovation that led to civilization? There are some interesting answers to this…
Read MoreReciprocity & Sharing
I’m currently attending the XIIth European Conference on Creativity and Innovation. It’s much less academic…
Read MoreInnovation Obstacle: Switching Costs
One of the major obstacles to innovation is switching costs. Here’s a story that shows…
Read MoreTwo Great Innovation Quotes
First up, from John Maynard Keynes in The General Theory of Employment, Interest & Money:…
Read MoreMind the Gap
I did a workshop last week with a group working on improving innovation within the…
Read MoreInnovation Makes Everything Amazing
One of my friends reminded me today about Louis CK’s great discussion of the benefits…
Read MoreTwitter’s Business Model Innovation
In an excellent article on the impact of twitter on the Arab Spring revolutions, Blake…
Read MoreWhy (Almost) Everything is Lousy
I recently read an article on BNet by Geoffrey James called “Top 5 Totally Useless…
Read MoreIs It an Innovation if No One Knows About It?
The first clocks using mechanical movements kept time by regulating a flow of water. For…
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