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Apr 28, 2014 Omphaloskepsis aka Contemplating Your Own Navel Help! The personal development section of my favorite bookstore is expanding faster than the universe. Read More

Apr 21, 2014 Complexity First; Simplicity Last Simplicity is the new thing. Quality is so over and innovation is fading into everythingness. Read More

Apr 14, 2014 The Mongolian Barbeque Effect on Innovation There is a new Starbucks in the main hall of the business school where I teach. Read More

Apr 7, 2014 It’s Time We Invented a Holodeck I have always loved living up north but this year winter sucked. Read More

Mar 31, 2014 Trying to Create Tomorrow’s Company with Yesterday’s Rules and Tools: Part 3 – Moving from the Old to the New Last time we explored some of the new innovation methods that are unseating the established conventional approaches that many companies still use. Read More

Mar 24, 2014 Trying to Create Tomorrow’s Company with Yesterday’s Rules and Tools: Part 2 – The New Rules and Tools Last time we explored why Millennials won’t use the old Boomer innovation methods. Read More

Mar 17, 2014 Trying to Create Tomorrow’s Company with Yesterday’s Rules and Tools: Part 1 – The Need for Speed and Magnitude If you have ever been to a TED talk or OpenCo conference or any other semi-chaotic gathering of clever Millennials you’ve experienced the new rules of innovation first hand. Read More

Mar 10, 2014 Mastering the Five Levels of Creativity (Part 5) Intuitive Creativity: This final and most challenging level of creativity has often been promoted to the realm of spiritual and wisdom traditions. Read More

Mar 3, 2014 Mastering the Five Levels of Creativity (Part 4) Narratological Creativity: Have you ever heard a child try to get its story straight? Read More

Feb 17, 2014 Mastering the Five Levels of Creativity (Part 2) Bisociative Creativity: Bisociative is a term coined by the controversial novelist Arthur Koestler in his celebrated bookThe Act of Creation to describe how our conscious mind, when relaxed, can connect rational with intuitive thoughts to produce eureka moments. Read More

Feb 10, 2014 Mastering the Five Levels of Creativity (Part 1) Is everyone creative? Sure they are but in very different ways and to varying degrees. Read More

Feb 3, 2014 Doing the Creative Work the Company Can’t: Part 3 – How You Innovate is What You Innovate “One cannot alter a condition with the same mindset that created it in the first place.” Read More