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

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

Mar 31, 2014 Trying to Create Tomorrow’s Company with Yesterday’s Rules and Tools: Part 3 – Moving from the Old to the New Last time we explored some of the new innovation methods that are unseating the established conventional approaches that many companies still use. Read More

Mar 24, 2014 Trying to Create Tomorrow’s Company with Yesterday’s Rules and Tools: Part 2 – The New Rules and Tools Last time we explored why Millennials won’t use the old Boomer innovation methods. Read More

Mar 17, 2014 Trying to Create Tomorrow’s Company with Yesterday’s Rules and Tools: Part 1 – The Need for Speed and Magnitude If you have ever been to a TED talk or OpenCo conference or any other semi-chaotic gathering of clever Millennials you’ve experienced the new rules of innovation first hand. Read More

Mar 3, 2014 Mastering the Five Levels of Creativity (Part 4) Narratological Creativity: Have you ever heard a child try to get its story straight? Read More

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. Read More

Jan 2, 2014 Innovation Is Messy: Navigating the Twists and Turns Innovation is messy. It’s about constructive conflict—not agreement. Read More

Feb 11, 2013 Why Leaders Don’t Understand How to Play the Innovation Game – and How You Can Help Them Win You run the innovation playbook – a prophetic strategy, a product development obstacle course of a process, a portfolio management radar detection system and a wide array of eccentric creativity methods. Read More

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. Read More