The Cavalry Isn’t Coming – Why You Should Take Your Destiny Into Your Own Hands
I fly a hundred thousand miles or more each year, and usually when I get off my plane I’m met […]
Goal Setting
You Are Not the Weather
Don’t most people notice the weather?  Yes, but they don’t respond to it.  In my home state of Michigan, there
The Graduation Speech I Didn’t Give [Infographic]
In the depths of winter, my thoughts often turn to warm visions of summer: barbeques, the beach, and graduations. As
Need to Get Creative? How to Create an Idea Space
Where you work is how you think. Your immediate surroundings determine your mindset, the way you generate ideas and solve
How to Do More With Less
Innovation is not an event. It’s a long process that depends on incremental changes along the way. These small adjustments
The Low-Risk Way to Design Breakthrough Products
The fastest way to build something is to deconstruct it. Think about all those companies that produce complicated things on
How to Turn Conflict Into Creativity
Two talented people who have nothing in common are more likely to create something exciting than two talented people who
Innovation: Making the Unknown Known
In his magnum opus Critique of Pure Reason, the philosopher Immanuel Kant builds a bridge between what is known, what is
Originality is Not All That Original
What do William Shakespeare and Led Zeppelin have in common? They both pinched much of their material from artists that
The Innovator Dating Service
Looking for a winning idea? All you have to do is click your heels and ask the Great and Powerful