Content

17

Aug 4, 2014 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 unknown and what is unknowable. Read More

Jul 28, 2014 Innovation Starts in Dark Places There is a dark, untold back story of innovation that may disturb you: many of the earliest forms of the world’s biggest technological advancements were pioneered by bad people in morally corrupt contexts. Read More

Jul 21, 2014 Originality is Not All That Original What do William Shakespeare and Led Zeppelin have in common? Read More

Jul 14, 2014 The False Ambition of Innovation Booze only brings false courage but coffee incites false ambition, an equally dangerous proposition. Read More

Jun 23, 2014 What Innovation Doesn’t Solve Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the big dreams and grand visions of my distant relative, Robert Fair DeGraff—a publishing innovator who co-founded Pocket Books in 1939. Read More

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. Read More

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

May 5, 2014 Invisible Innovators When I was eighteen years old I wasn’t exactly college material. 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