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Jun 10, 2013 For All the Go-to-Guys on Father’s Day Barry Sanders, arguably the greatest running back to every play football, never spiked the ball when scored a touchdown. Read More

Apr 1, 2013 Alien Innovator Syndrome Have you ever watched one of those television programs about how aliens have been visiting earth and gumming up the works with their weird science since time time immemorial? Read More

Mar 18, 2013 Oh, The Joys of Screwing Up Innovation poses two problems for most leaders, given the way they are trained to think. Read More

Mar 13, 2013 Why the ‘most innovative companies’ aren’t Pull out the list of the “most innovative companies” from your favorite business magazine. Read More

Jan 16, 2013 Why Innovation Is So Hard Chances are, innovation doesn’t work where you work — or only works some of the time, mostly in spite of your organization’s system and processes. Read More

Nov 27, 2012 Changing Into Your Christmas Culture What if you could change your culture? Read More

Nov 21, 2012 A Conflicted Country And The Strategy of the Third Path (Guest Post by Robert Quinn) Tuesday was the presidential election. Read More

Sep 19, 2012 Cast the characters The great Italian director Federico Fellini incessantly teased his audience through his combination of cinematic collage and bacchanalian montage glued together into a cohesive ensemble of freak show faces and idiosyncratic incidences. Read More

Sep 12, 2012 Make Stone Soup “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality”. Read More

May 23, 2012 Viva la Revolucion French Enlightenment philosopher and impecunious renegade Jean-Jacques Rousseau emblematic bon mot “Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains” was not just an observation on the state of pre-Republican Europe but also a commentary on our self-imposed servitude. Read More

May 1, 2012 Sync it Up “Having just a vision’s no solution, everything depends on execution The art of making art is putting it together” (Stephen Sondheim, Sunday in the Park with George) In the old television series Star Trek, the Klingon’s were portrayed as a war mongering race focused on destroying Starfleet, the peacekeeping force for the United Federation of Planets. Read More

Mar 27, 2012 The Art of Growing Old One of the side effects of my portfolio life is that I travel more than any rational person should. Read More