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I was recently going through some old files and notebooks and came across a paper I wrote during my sophomore year in college (Spring 1980). …

With the transition from the information/knowledge economy to the creative economy, it’s more important than ever to make sure our kids are ready to compete…

On May 6th 2011, 11 people volunteered their time to participate in a Killer Innovations workshop to “Innovate Education”.  The following video shows the “grouping exercise”…

I rarely have the time to host workshops unless they are sponsored by a company or organization.  As a result of a unique set of…

I’ve been asked to join the Board of Directors for the Tech Museum.  If you can’t tell by now, my wife and I support educational…

I’ve been asked (more like challenged) to create a dozen or so killer questions that could be used by teachers, schools, districts, state education agencies,…

Just do a quick comparison of the market value to the book value for public U.S. companies over the last two decades and you will see the…

Since the beginning of time, it’s been entrepreneurs that drive the creation of innovation.  True breakthroughs have been the result of an individual or small…

During a recent meeting I attended with educators and government officials, I shared my frustration with the “output” of the current educational system.   In…

In a recent BusinessWeek article, Bruce Nussbaum made the proclamation that innovation is dead.

“Innovation” died in 2008, killed off by overuse, misuse, narrowness, incrementalism …

Recorded live April 4, 2008 at the Business Alliance Bootcamp for Growing Companies and Entrepreneurs …
Change is something we may try to stop but…

On my flight back to the US yesterday, I was reading the Wall Street Journal Europe and came across an editorial piece by Michael Bloomberg,…