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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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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,...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...