Malcolm Gladwell on the Norden Bombsight
Tim Kastelle I’m traveling right now, so I can’t write a lot today. Instead, I have this…
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Get the Fundamentals Right First
It’s been a pretty good year for sports in Brisbane. The big highlight for me…
Read MoreInnovation When All You Have is a Noodle
Most of the inspirational innovation stories that we hear are about technology firms like Google,…
Read MoreAda Lovelace Day 2011 – Inspiration from Jane McGonigal
I missed writing about someone on Ada Lovelace Day this year because I was actually…
Read MoreInnovation in Aussie Rules
Collingwood fan and outstanding economist Nick Gruen wrote an interesting piece prior to last weekend’s…
Read MoreInnovation Aphorisms
Over the weekend I read Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s thought-provoking book The Bed of Procrustres. It’s…
Read MoreRisk Averse, or…?
Here is something I ran across yesterday that confuses me quite a bit. Take a…
Read MoreInnovation Obstacle: Bureaucracy?
What is the innovation that led to civilization? There are some interesting answers to this…
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 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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