Are You Aiming High Enough?
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Every innovative idea has some risk in it. But sometimes, with higher risk we can find unusually high rewards. For a lot of innovators, we need to be aiming higher.
Tim Kastelle
How to Grow
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If we try to completely protect ourselves from failure, we’ll never learn. And if we don’t learn, we don’t grow. To grow, we have to take risks, and we have to mess up. If we learn from this, we’ll be ok.
What is the Best Organisational Structure for Creativity?
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Creative people are different from you and me, right? Well, no. David Burkus dispels this myth and nine more in his excellent new book The Myths of Creativity. This holds important lessons for how to organise our firms to help them be more creative.
Innovation Lessons from the Rise, Fall, and Rise of LEGO
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After a string of innovation failures, LEGO nearly went out of business in 2003. Brick by Brick tells the story of how this happened, and how LEGO turned things around to become an innovation powerhouse again. There are some broad lessons that can be learned from this story.
How Can We Increase Insight?
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Innovation depends on insight. But many of the practices and habits within our organisations actually inhibit generating insights. In Seeing What Other Don’t, Gary Klein offers some ideas for overcoming these obstacles, and for generating novel insights.
The Power of Community
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What to Amanda Palmer and WordCamp have in common? Both are built on powerful communities. There are some lessons for business in this.
Seven Steps to Build Your Experimental Capability
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Experimenting is a core innovation skill. Scott Berkun’s book The Year Without Pants outlines the approach that Automattic uses to foster experiments at WordPress.com. It’s a great approach, which you can adapt to fit your organisation too.
Making Work Better – Scott Berkun & The Future of Management
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I’ve had a lot of jobs in my life, and many of them have been lousy. We need to make work better. Scott Berkun’s new book, The Year Without Pants, gives us some guidance in trying to make management more effective.
The Discipline of Innovation
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My goal here is to help people that are trying to build a better world. I want to help make work more interesting. I hope that we can work together to do that. This is why we need to think of innovation as a discipline.
The Unknown Knowns of Innovation
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We know how to make organisations more innovative, but we don’t act on this knowledge. Why? Sometimes it’s because it’s hard, which isn’t a very good excuse.
Innovation Opportunity: The Future is Co-Created
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One of the world’s first home computers was the Honeywell Kitchen Computer. It was a disastrous product, but thinking about it can help us spread our own new ideas more quickly.
