Digital Natives vs. Digital Immigrants
Don’t let the word “digital” fool you in all this talk about how difficult it is for digital natives and […]
Flexibility
It’s Time We Invented a Holodeck
I have always loved living up north but this year winter sucked. The Great Lakes froze over completely for the
Mastering the Five Levels of Creativity (Part 3)
Analogical Creativity: Great innovators from Archimedes in his bathtub to Einstein riding his elevator of relativity have used analogies to
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
MacGyver Mind, McDonald’s Mind
In some practical ways our world is still illuminated by the Scottish Enlightenment that brought us such goodies as electromagnetism,
On the Hypocrisy of Innovators
Recently I spoke to a conference of leading business school deans about the prospects of the MBA degree. My speech
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
Creativity, Flexibility, Growth
From Theory to Practice
Enlightenment may be in some degree an article of faith but in substance it is an act of investigation and demonstration.
Creativity, Flexibility, Growth, Innovation
Take Multiple Shots on Goal
The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.” ( Edward Gibbon) Retired center Wayne Gretzky is
Flexibility, Growth, Personal Innovation
Getting Better Every Day in Every Way
Nineteenth Century French psychologist turned célébrité Émile Coué famously recommended that repeatedly chanting “Every day, in every way, I’m getting