March 06, 2017
Seven Fundamentals of a Winning Innovation Team
Sooner or later, you’re going to be asked to lead an innovation team. This will be your time to shine, if you’re up to the challenge. The distinguishing aspect of leading a...
February 27, 2017
Trend Tracking: Six Essential Steps for Spotting Your Next Opportunity
I once asked Fred Smith, the founder of FedEx, what led him to start the company back in 1971. He explained that, at the time, he was running a company at the Little Rock,...
February 20, 2017
Seven Strategies for Generating Ideas
How do organizations come up with new ideas? And how do they use those ideas to create successful new products, services, businesses, and solutions?
To answer these...
March 01, 2016
5 Habits of Highly Effective Ideators
Several years ago at the Economist Ideas conference in Berkeley, I asked Elon Musk whether he ever worried about spreading himself too thin. After all, Musk is not only CEO of...
November 16, 2015
Winning on Shark Tank: Nine Strategies for Selling Your Bright Ideas
Later this week at a resort hotel in Huntington Beach, California, a group of managers from a $2 billion program and construction management company will host a Shark...
October 07, 2014
Four Strategies For Thinking Ahead of the Curve
About the time you read this, I’ll be stepping onto the stage here in Monterrey, Mexico, to kick off the Universidad de Monterrey’s annual Innovation Summit. Arrived here...