Are You Hitting Your Top Gear?
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Most of us have an extra gear that rarely kicks in. The three obstacles to hitting your top gear are ignorance, apathy and fear – and we need to work through all three to innovate.
New Markets Need New Tools
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When markets change, we often try to keep using the same tools that we’ve always used, in the same way. This will lead to failure. We need to innovate the tools we use, or innovate the business model around the old tools.
Will Your New Idea Work?
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If we’re evaluating markets, is it better to start with research or with talking to people? In part, it depends on whether we’re entering a completely new market or not.
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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Innovation: Are You a Gardener or an Architect?
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George R.R. Martin describes two kinds of writers: architects (who plan) and gardeners (who see what emerges). These ideas apply to innovators too. However, instead of embracing one approach over the other, we need to build the skills require to integrate them.
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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Failure is Always an Option
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How I Almost Blew My Big Chance by Forgetting Everything I Know About Innovation
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I just started writing for Harvard Business Review Blogs. Here is the story of how I almost blew that opportunity, and how I finally made it work by doing what I already know works: experimenting.