When Should We Adopt a New Idea?
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When new ideas arrive, it might be easy to see that they will eventually win. But when should you adopt these ideas? It’s a hard question to answer.
Category Archives: book riffs
Lessons From My Latest Big Mistake
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Mistakes are fine, as long as we learn from them. Here is what I learned from one of my recent ones – about, ironically, a friend of mine that teaches us how to think better!
Your Assumptions About Reading Are Wrong
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The percentage of people reading books these days might surprise you. Identifying our false assumptions can lead to huge innovation opportunities.
Are You About to be Disrupted?
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Is technology about to disrupt your market? Chunka Mui and Paul B. Carroll think so, and they have some good suggestions about how to respond.
The Role of Innovation in Economic Growth & Inequality
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Innovation drives economic growth, but the relationship between innovation and inequality is much less clear. It is possible to be an innovative country with low levels of inequality.
How to Succeed in a TL;DR Culture
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TL;DR – when attention spans get shorter, we can either accommodate this by going short ourselves, or we can do the opposite and go deep.
Don’t Set Goals, Make New Habits Instead
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It’s not enough to want to innovate more. We have to build the habits that will help us take the daily actions that will achieve this goal.
Get Better Ideas by Paying Attention
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2013 Holiday Reading List for Innovators
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Ideas change lives. Here are some of the sources of ideas that have changed mine recently. I hope you find a few ideas in here that will change yours too!
Ideas Change Lives: How Tom Peters’ Changed Mine
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You Can’t Benchmark Your Way to Greatness
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Many organisations try to increase innovation by copying the successful techniques of other firms. This rarely works. Instead, you need to develop your purpose first. It’s this underlying philosophy that drives success, not tools.
Innovate by Re-Imagining
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There are three ways to develop a disruptive innovation: find a 10X performance improvement, innovate the business model, or re-imagination. Here is a case study of how to use design thinking to achieve a radically re-imagined product.
