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Jun 9, 2014 The Innovator Dating Service Looking for a winning idea? All you have to do is click your heels and ask the Great and Powerful Omni Web for your wish to come true, or so I’m told. Read More

Jun 2, 2014 Innovation Isn’t Change Innovation isn’t change. It may seem like a minor difference but this is actually a huge distinction. Read More

May 27, 2014 The Art of Making Art My family belongs to a ponderous array of arts organizations – symphonies, museums, theater companies and a mélange of performance ensembles that defy category. Read More

May 19, 2014 Do You Have the Capacity to Innovate? The same thing happens to me once every three months. Read More

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 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

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

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

Jan 27, 2014 Doing the Creative Work the Company Can’t: Part 2 – The Rise of the Creativizer In most dynastic organizations there is a special role for the highly practiced innovation master who apprentices the novitiate through a “see one, do one, teach one” process of development. Read More

Jan 2, 2014 Innovation Is Messy: Navigating the Twists and Turns Innovation is messy. It’s about constructive conflict—not agreement. Read More