The WSJ ran a great piece by Leslie Kwoh called Memo To Staff: Take More Risks highlighting the move by some CEOs to encourage staff to innovate, try things and to stop just surviving. Seth Godin’s latest book The Icarus Deception shouted a similar theme – we’re all...
Tweakers Malcolm Gladwell wrote a brilliant piece in The New Yorker this week diving into the new biography on Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. Gladwell highlights the role of Jobs as a tweaker of an idea, then a transformation of that idea into something better, for...
David Kelley of IDEA “Innovators aren’t exceptional as much as they are confident.” says David Kelley, founder of design firm IDEO. (WSJ) David Kelley and George Kembel founded the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stamford a nondegree d.school...
“Innovation, as far as we’re concerned, is one of the key drivers of everything that goes on in business,” said Sir Andrew Likierman, the dean of London Business School. The school opened its Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship this year. Innovation drives...
In these days of hyper-change, 24 hour news cycles, sound bites that offer instant gratification it is important to remain curious, to dig deeper beneath the headlines to reveal the true story. The ability to bring a curious mind every day to your projects is vital to...