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Jun 16, 2014
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 digital immigrants to communicate.
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Apr 7, 2014
It’s Time We Invented a Holodeck
I have always loved living up north but this year winter sucked.
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Feb 24, 2014
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 creatively solve complex problems.
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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.
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Jul 9, 2013
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, capitalism and single malt whisky.
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Mar 11, 2013
On the Hypocrisy of Innovators
Recently I spoke to a conference of leading business school deans about the prospects of the MBA degree.
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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.
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Aug 22, 2012
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.
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Aug 15, 2012
Take Multiple Shots on Goal
The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.”
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Aug 8, 2012
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 better and better” would activate the subconscious mind in the process of personal improvement.
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Jun 20, 2012
Hide Inside Trojan Horses
“It’s better to get something worthwhile done using deception than to fail to get something worthwhile done using truth.”
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Jun 14, 2012
Break Down the Game Film
American football is a game of strategy and confidence tricks that would make a flimflam man rosy.
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