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Better ideas can completely change the face of your business and that’s not a bad thing!
Better ideas can make or break a business plan. After all, success is based on the ability to come up with better ideas. At the same time, bad ideas can take a successful business model and drag it down into the ground faster than you can blink. Trust me. I have the scars to prove it. […]
Igniting Personal Creativity
In my book Beyond the Obvious, I discuss the power of questions in igniting personal creativity and thereby create innovations that impact a business or industry. If you’ve read the book, you know what some of those questions are. They begin, “What are . . . ?” “What if . . . ?” “What will be . . .
Beyond The Obvious is named Top 10 Business Book …. in Austria!
Yesterday I got an email from my publisher (Hyperion) with an attachment When I opened the attachment, I saw that Beyond The Obvious had been named #8 on the Top 10 Business Book in Austria! Thanks to all the readers in Austria! Note: Through Dec 31st, 100% of the author royalties from my book
If you want to be innovative, it helps to be a little bit ‘different.’
Would you agree that if you want to be innovative, it helps to be a little bit different? The upcoming issue of The World Financial Review has reprinted Chapter 1 from my book Beyond The Obvious titled “Why Questions Matter?”. The core message of the chapter is that there are many ways to generate n
Core Attributes For An Innovation Culture
The key foundation for an innovation culture is what I call the “core attributes”. Core attributes are those attributes the organization holds which form the foundation on which its perform work and conduct itself. Done well, they are empowering to an organization. What to think about when definin
getAbstract has just released a five-page summary of Beyond the Obvious
getAbstract summarizes business books, helping their customers be the best-read, most expert players on the business scene today. They select ~50 titles per month and create a five-page summary in a magazine-page format. You can read it in less than 10 minutes. You get the book’s key ideas. The no-
I’m Joining CableLabs as the President and CEO
It was announced earlier today that I will be joining CableLabs as the next President and CEO effective June 1. The press release is below. Board Selects Phil McKinney As New Leader for CableLabs® Louisville, Colorado, May 30, 2012 —The CableLabs® Board of Directors has selected Phil McKinney as th
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, they also asked if my daughter could join. So for the first time, Tara and I made a joint appearance. The speech was about the need to expand the […]
Comptel Keynote: The Secrets to Innovation
Last Monday, I delivered the opening keynote to the Comptel 2012 show in San Francisco. The aim of the keynote was to share with the audience the secrets to innovation and how they could take advantage of them in their firms. Topics included: 5 Elements of Innovation (Innovation Attitude, Curiosity,
Can you teach yourself to avoid doing the obvious?
The problem that many business people, entrepreneurs, and would-be innovators suffer from is our inability to escape from our past. Simply put, we are all shaped by our past experiences, whether good or bad. We look at the end results of these experiences—“this idea worked”; “this idea failed”— and
