You've built a great team. But are you missing the "secret ingredient" that will help you to come up with the innovations the competition won't see coming?
If you're a video person, I lay it all out in the video below. If reading is more your thing, skip the video and hop straight to the transcript below!
APR
2021
If you've ever led a creative, innovative team, you know it can be challenging! Here's a tip that I learned when leading MY highly innovative team.
If you're a video person, I lay it all out in the video below. If reading is more your thing, skip the video and hop straight to the transcript below!
APR
2021
Are You Going Down the Wrong Rabbit Hole?
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When you and your team are looking for innovative ideas, make sure you aren't going down the wrong rabbit hole!
If you're a video person, I lay it all out in the video below. If reading is more your thing, skip the video and hop straight to the transcript below!
APR
2021
In a rapidly changing and increasingly competitive world, the next breakthrough idea wins.
Depending on how you feel about #innovation, #creativity, and #breakthrough thinking, you may find this concept either frightening or exhilarating.
It’s frightening if you think of innovation, creativity, and breakthrough thinking as specialized skills that are only available to “the others.”
It’s exhilarating if you realize that innovation, creativity, and breakthrough thinking are natural human traits that are available to us all.
In other words, if you ...
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2020
You’ve heard of FOMO, right? Fear Of Missing Out. It’s why we’re addicted to Facebook and Instagram and all the rest. It’s why we tell our devices to notify us the instant anything happens anywhere in the world. Because heaven forbid we’re not in the know!
Industry leaders have a similar fear, which I call FOD: Fear Of Disruption. They don’t want to be the Blockbuster to someone else’s Netflix. They don’t want to be the ...
Continue Reading →JAN
2020
Why You Need More Distractions in Your Life
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I grew up in the shadow of an Amish dairy farm (depending on where the sun was, of course) in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Now, if you’ve spent as much time around the Amish as I have, you know that they’re kind of big on horses. And if you’ve spent as much time around Amish horses as I have, you know that they all have something in common.
They’re all wearing blinders.
Partially as a fashion statement, of course, but mostly so that they ...
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2020
We all run into obstacles.
Maybe it’s a business change that we don’t like; a traffic jam when we’re already late; a system or process that feels overly cumbersome. But we all run into obstacles.
And what do we do when that happens? What do we do when we run into that obstacle?
We whine. Grumble. Curse. Complain. Gripe about it to others.
And that’s where most of us stop.
In other words, the entire process for most of us looks like this:
- Run into obstacle.
- Complain ...
JAN
2020
How to Cultivate a Disruption Mindset
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Disruption.
It’s more than just a corporate buzzword.
It’s the new way of the world.
Amazon did it with retail. Uber did it with transportation. Apple did it with phones and other devices.
Ask any CEO what they fear the most, and you’ll hear a variety of answers. Recession. Talent exodus. Brain drain. All valid concerns. But the one that really keeps them up at night — the one they talk about in the back rooms where nobody else can hear ...
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2020
How to Come Up With Breakthrough Ideas
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Do you want to know where breakthrough ideas really come from? I’ll give you a clue: they don’t come from some lightning bolt in the sky.
Breakthrough ideas, almost invariably, are found at the intersection of two or more seemingly unconnected things. What do these intersections look like?
- They look like Johannes Gutenberg connecting a wine processor and movable type and creating the printing press.
- They look like Steve Jobs connecting computers and a college calligraphy class and creating ...
NOV
2019
If I were to ask you to name an innovation, what would you say?
The iPhone? The Tesla? The Internet?
Maybe not any of those three. But the odds are that whatever you name would be a biggie. Something groundbreaking and game changing.
And that’s kind of what we think innovation is. Something groundbreaking and game changing. We associate innovation with names like:
- Steve Jobs
- Marie Curie
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Elon Musk
- Thomas Edison
And look, there’s no question that these people are innovation rock stars. If there were ...
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2019