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Feb 10, 2014 Mastering the Five Levels of Creativity (Part 1) Is everyone creative? Sure they are but in very different ways and to varying degrees. Read More

Feb 3, 2014 Doing the Creative Work the Company Can’t: Part 3 – How You Innovate is What You Innovate “One cannot alter a condition with the same mindset that created it in the first place.” Read More

Jan 27, 2014 Doing the Creative Work the Company Can’t: Part 2 – The Rise of the Creativizer In most dynastic organizations there is a special role for the highly practiced innovation master who apprentices the novitiate through a “see one, do one, teach one” process of development. 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

Sep 11, 2013 The Innovation Do-Over List Each year around this time the calls and emails start – magazines, associations, think tanks. Read More

Jul 24, 2013 OpenCo Festivals selects Detroit for Upcoming Business Innovation Day DETROIT, JULY 24 – OpenCo, a unique “inside-out” business conference, has selected Detroit as their next global destination for a celebration of open-style business. Read More

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. Read More

Jun 10, 2013 For All the Go-to-Guys on Father’s Day Barry Sanders, arguably the greatest running back to every play football, never spiked the ball when scored a touchdown. Read More

Mar 18, 2013 Oh, The Joys of Screwing Up Innovation poses two problems for most leaders, given the way they are trained to think. 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

Sep 5, 2012 Enlighten and Entertain From grade school and up we put our wares on exhibition and show and tell the story of our stuff. Read More

Jul 26, 2012 Apprentice the Sorcerer “But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new. Read More