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If You’re A Social Entrepreneur Then Join Me At Sea
Yes — I’m going to sea in 2013. I’ve been asked to extend my mentorship of entrepreneurs beyond the Unreasonable Institute to the new effort - Unreasonable at…
New Translation of Beyond The Obvious
Before the launch of the book, foreign language translations of Beyond The Obvious were negotiated with publishers in Russia, China, Japan and Brazil.
Yesterday I…
Spark Your Innovation By Hiring People On The Autism Spectrum (Neural Diversity)
Late last year,I was asked to give a speech in Atlanta to AIMD (American Institute for the Managing Diversity). Given the work with Hacking Autism,…
Weekend Thoughts on Innovation, Culture and Mentors
During my recent trip to Denver, I stopped by Starto TV for a discussion on innovation, culture and mentors. The interview is in the second half…
Denver entrepreneurs are on fire!
Earlier this week, I was in Denver for a series of talks and book signings. One of the key catalysts for me to come out…
The Secrets to Innovation
Last Monday, I delivered the opening keynote to the Comptel 2012 show in San Francisco. The objective of the keynote was to share with the…
Can you teach yourself to avoid doing the obvious?
Escape From Our Past
The problem that that many businesspeople, entrepreneurs, and would-be innovators suffer from is our inability escape from our past. Simply put, we…
On NBC Discussing How Companies Can Be More Innovative (video)
Yesterday, I recorded two segments for NBC’s Press:Here that will appear on Sunday, April 8th @ 9:00AM in SFO and then later on cable in New…
2012 Innovation Competition Announced By The VA With $50M in Awards
Innovation Competition
Its that time of year and the Veterans Affair (VA) has just announced their 2012 Innovation Competition.
This is the third year the VA has…
Where are the CEO’s who can provide innovation leadership?
What is the secret to Apple’s innovation leadership?
In Silicon Valley, you can’t avoid the game of comparing every company to Apple. There is no…
Fuel for your design inspiration
What is your design inspiration?
Back in my architecture days, I would collect photo’s, rip pages out of architecture magazines and collect trinkets that provided…
Video of the book launch event at the Computer History Museum
Last Thursday I had the great pleasure of being the guest of John Hollar at the Computer History Museum for an hour-long discussion on Beyond the…
Harvard Business Review article on the book – Beyond The Obvious
In the March issue of Harvard Business Review magazine, Julia Kirby (@JuliaKirby) wrote a review of Beyond The Obvious as part of a larger piece titled Are We…
6 Ways To Measure Innovation Success That Every Company Should Put In Place
Over the years, I’ve tried every combination of metrics you can think of when it comes to measuring the impact on an organization from their…
I got deep fried by these guys during an interview on the topic of innovation
A few weeks past, I was interviewed by the hosts of the Deep Fried Bytes Podcast (Keith & Woody) on the topic of innovation. The…
3 CEOs who get innovation
Over my career, I’ve had the opportunity to get to know a number of CEO’s. The general perception in the market is that CEO’s of…
3 Mistakes Kodak Made In Their Innovation Strategy
With this morning’s announcement that Kodak would seek bankruptcy protection, I reflected back on how and why it reached this point. In my opinion, Kodak…
You are invited to the book launch event
The book launch event for Beyond The Obvious is set for Thursday, February 16th at the Computer History Museum (Mountain View, CA).
The event will begin…
What were the most under-hyped innovations at CES?
Last week was CES and the hype machines where operating at full speed. Ahead of the show, I posted a column over at Forbes on…
The First Review of My Book Is In …
Just as in Hollywood, the book publishing industry has a process of reviewing new books and authors and then telling others what they think. In…







