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Over the years, I’ve seen my fair share of poorly written mission statements.  The steps to creating a mission statement, in my opinion accurately…

Its that time of year again when managers deliver annual performance reviews.  Over my career, I’ve been shocked on how few managers have the leadership…

One thing that I’ve been thinking about lately, especially given my recent announcement, is what will be my innovation legacy.
Another person who pondered this…

Great leaders understand that one of their key responsibilities is to set the goals for innovation.  Most leaders don’t take this effort seriously and as…

One of the more common excuses used by management for innovations not making it in the market is a “failure to execute”.  Is it really…

Below are 10 quotes from Bill Hewlett and David Packard that I use as a periodic kick in the pants.
1. The greatest success goes…

I’ve been recently laid up recovering from some medical work that I had done.  During this time, a number of my friends sent me…

Seth Godin recently made a post on his blog about putting yourself into an impossible position and then setting back and watching incredibly things happen.…

 
In most organizations these days, decision making is held in the hands of the few.  This is especially true when it comes to innovation.…

Best practices for innovation makes no sense. The consulting industry is built up on the idea of taking the “best” from each of their clients…

Rich Karlgaard, Publisher of Forbes, and I had a recent discussion on the changing role of the CIO.  When I was a CIO at a…

Below are the slides from a speech I recently gave where I discussed the innovations that will define the landscape over the next 10 years.…

The long anticipated release of Chuck House’s book on HP (HP Phenomenon - Innovation and Business Transformation) has finally arrived and Chuck was so kind as to…

During a previous interview session I did with Kym McNicholas at Forbes, I mentioned that we had to be done at a specific time as…