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No Matter What You Believe – You Are Creative!

What is shocking to me is how many people don’t think of themselves as being creative. Whenever I give a speech, I ask the audience if they consider themselves as creative. On average, about 1/3 raise their hands which means 2/3 of the audience self classify themselves as non-creative.

yes - you are creative no matter what anyone else says
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US vs China Parents – What skills do children need to be innovative?

During a recent meeting I attended with educators and government officials, I shared my frustration with the “output” of the current educational system. In my opinion, we optimized the system to produce graduates with deep technical skills and the ability to take tests. One competency that I see mis

US vs China Parents – What skills do children need to be innovative?
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Stupid Wins In The Game Of Innovation

We are a race of innovators – born to use our imagination to create not only solutions to our most pressing problems (polio vaccine) but to also create the fun in our lives (pet rocks). We only have to look as far as our kids so rediscover that fundamental draw to use our imagination to create somet

Stupid Wins In The Game Of Innovation
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Slides From The Keynote At The Open Innovation Summit

Below are the slides I used during my keynote this morning at the Open Innovation Summit in Orlando.  The topic was “How to Win In The Creative Economy” and touched on: The transtion we are experiencing from the knowledge economy to the creative economy The challenges of innovation (corporate anti-b

Slides From The Keynote At The Open Innovation Summit
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Setting The Right Innovation Focus

If you are a regular reader of the blog and/or listener of the podcast, your familiar with the basic foundation of the Killer Innovations approach is to define the area of focus for an innovation and then ask the “right question” (If you are not, go have a listen). I’ve covered the topic of […]

Setting The Right Innovation Focus
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Plan For Change Because It Is Coming

Change is inevitable but it doesn’t always have to be a surprise. When we become comfortable in our position (industry structure, market leadership, etc), we open the door for change to catch us by surprise. How do you keep your eye’s open? By scanning the areas of possible change …. and planning fo

The Changing Experience Requirements
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Presentation: An Introduction to the Killer Innovation Approach

Below are the slides from a presentation I gave last week introducing IT executives to the Killer Innovation Approach. In addition to the slides, I ran the attendee’s through a “sample” workshop over dinner where they were provided a task/objective, they had to meet an idea quota, rank their ideas a

Presentation: An Introduction to the Killer Innovation Approach
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Slides from Innovation Tour presentation

Below are the slides I used during a recent dinner speech I gave for the Innovation Tour hosted by Brainreactions.   For long time listeners of the podcast, you will recall that I did an interview with the founder of Brainreactions (Anand Chhatpar) in one of the first podcasts.  At that time, Anand

Slides from Innovation Tour presentation
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Moleskin Notebook

The history/story of the Moleskin notebooks is shipped with every notebook ….. “This long-standing tradition was continued by writer-traveller Bruce Chatwin who used to buy his moleskines at an old Paris stationery shop in Rue de l’Ancienne Comedie where he would always stock up before embarking on

Moleskine Notebook