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December 04, 2019

Stop Asking Permission to Innovate

There’s an old saying that goes “it’s easier to ask forgiveness than to get permission.” That’s the bold conviction held by internal innovators – people who innovate within...
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November 13, 2019

How to Build a Culture of Innovation

The great management thinker Peter Drucker once wrote, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” What he meant was that even the most brilliant strategy will fail if your culture...
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May 23, 2019

The Fortress and the Ship: How to Manage Your Core Business While Seeking New Innovation

In a glass-walled boardroom overlooking the Hudson River wrapping around downtown Manhattan, the Statue of Liberty in the distance, our guest lecturer flicked on one of the...
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April 09, 2019

What to Ignore on "Most Innovative Companies" Lists

The folks at Fast Company and Forbes this month released their annual "most innovative companies" lists. Like many of us, I look forward to these lists every year. By...
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March 05, 2019

TOP 10 TRENDS YOUR CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER SHOULD BE THINKING ABOUT IN 2019

The future matters. Just ask anyone, or any organization, who thinks they don’t have one. All of your greatness today – your people, products, partnerships, brands, operations,...
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February 26, 2019

Moving Beyond Your Hierarchy

For years I've sat on the opposing side of hierarchy. That rigid concept in which orders are barked down from above and complied to from below has robbed our corporations,...
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January 23, 2019

THINKERS50 RADAR LIST: HOW THINKERS FORESEE THE FUTURE

Last week, I was accepted on the Thinkers50 Radar list, composed of 30 management thinkers to watch in 2019. How I made the list, I am not quite sure. The entrepreneurs,...
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January 17, 2019

LESSONS FROM NETFLIX: HOW TO SYSTEMATICALLY UNLOCK INTERNAL INNOVATION

Do your people go into the kitchen … or do they go home? When Kat Cole, a waiter at a local Hooters, learned there were not enough cooks that day to serve food, she watched...
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December 11, 2018

Blockchain Bitcoin

When many hear the word Blockchain, they think immediately of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. This is an unfortunate mistake. You can classify types of Blockchains across...
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December 10, 2018

What is Blockchain?

Some claim Blockchain will fundamentally change the world. Others dismiss it as hype. The truth probably lies somewhere in between. Naturally, reaching your own conclusion of...
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December 07, 2018

What the 4-Step Pattern of Innovation Can Tell us about the Future of Blockchain

We usually get it wrong. When trying to predict the path of innovations - which ones are hype, which ones are real, which ones will take hold, and which ones will fall out of...
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December 07, 2018

We Decided to Stop Selling and it Works!

For years I have been selling Outthinker: our workshops, certifications, speeches, membership, etc. And to be honest, it has felt exhausting. Waking up to long lists of tasks,...
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