When Nobody Wants Your Innovation
What happens when the comfort of the old is preferable to the risk of the new? This is the situation […]
Innovation Misconceptions
The Three Realities of Innovators
How do you build a bridge to a place that doesn’t yet exist? This is the paradoxical challenge that every
Before There Were TED Talks, There Were Chautauquas
Before there were TED talks, there were Chautauquas. In the late-nineteenth century, Americans looking for cultural stimulation and intellectual inspiration
The Unlikely Source of Your Next Big Breakthrough
The middleman just might be the vanguard of your next innovation strategy. It’s time to reimagine the role of supply
How Rules and Bureaucracy Breed Innovation
Most of the matter in the known universe is stuff that we have no way of seeing. Dark matter–the incredibly
The Secret to Teaching Creativity at Business School
How do you teach creativity? I’ve had to work through this issue for over 25 years. In 1990, I returned
Want Radical Innovation? Here’s Where to Look
Innovation happens behind-the-scenes. It’s often not the faces of a company–the directors and managers–who come up with breakthrough ideas but
Innovation in Higher Education: Here We Go Again
According the Chronicle of Higher Education and National Public Radio, competency based education is the new thing. Actually, it’s the old thing. Vocational
What Are You Willing to Give Up to Get Innovation?
Most descriptions of innovation end up in overreaching hyperbole: groundbreaking, disruptive, radical. This shouldn’t surprise anyone because innovation is basically
4 Innovation Strategies to Forecast the Future
What’s going to happen to the Euro in the coming year? What’s the next game-changing political development in the Middle