Here’s a great talk from Dan Pink at this year’s TED Conference: The implications for people managing innovation are obvious, and to discuss these in too much detail here would diminish the impact of the talk. So all I’ll say is watch it, enjoy it, and then think about how you might act on it.

Here’s a video from Bob Garfield discussing the main ideas in his book The Chaos Scenario: The Chaos Scenario from Greg Stielstra on Vimeo. He has a lot of stats and a lot of stories that make the point about how all of the media business models have been breaking down recently. His recommendation is […]

Tim and I get to talk to many managers as part of our research and consulting work. One of the good things about doing this is that we get to see common success factors and inhibitors of innovation. A particular tension that exists in nearly all of the organisations that we see is between the […]

John & I are both working on other posts at the moment, but in the meantime, this is hilarious: Charles Babbage & Ada Lovelace use the Difference Engine to solve the Global Financial crisis! It’s a webcomic by Sydney Padua, and it’s fantastic. Padua touches on a lot of issues that I regularly talk about […]

Here are the slides + audio from the talk I gave this afternoon to the PhD students in the Business School. Despite what the clock says at the bottom of the slides, it only runs for 18 minutes. Hit the green button to start. If I sound like Jabba the Hut, then you need to […]

One of my favorite debating points in my MBA class is the limited usefulness of regulation to promote fair competition and stimulate economic growth at the same time. While competition is a good thing, achieving it through regulation usually stifles innovation. Of course, this is a complex area of economic policy that stirs up very […]