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As a futurist and innovation coach, I've worked with literally hundreds of industry groups, from manufacturing to retail to distribution. Few of them have fascinated me...

With ChatGPT celebrating its first anniversary this month, I’ve been musing lately on what historians might say about the times we are living in. What does the future...

Crypto enterprenuer Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted on seven counts of fraud and conspiracy and may now face 110 years in prison when sentenced in 2024.Meanwhile, in...

While Hamas terrorists were planning their deadly attack on Israel last week, my travel companions and I were in Prague and Berlin, visiting museums and recalling that...

Six months after China lifted Covid-19 restrictions and reopened its borders, visitors are staying away in droves. The Wall Street Journal reports that Shanghai's and Beijing's...

Last week I flew to tiny Dawson Springs, Kentucky, to help rebuild houses destroyed in the devastating tornadoes that ripped through the state a year ago. As a totally unskilled...

There's an old joke about two babies who were placed side-by-side in a hospital maternity ward. They lay there staring at one another. Decades later, in their 90s, the two...

Canadian Wayne Gretzky, the winningest ice hockey player of all time, was once asked the secret of his success. "Simple, he replied. "I don't skate to where the puck is, I skate...

You don't need a crystal ball to see that we’re in a period of mass acceleration right now. “It’s as if we’re driving the fastest race car ever imagined through unknown,...

I once asked Elon Musk if he ever felt he was spreading himself too thin. This was years ago when we were both speakers at the Economist Innovation Conference at U.C. Berkeley's...

If you've participated in one of my workshops, or watched my videos on YouTube, you've heard me riff on the importance of environment in the creative/innovative process. You put...

It is one thing to "Monday morning quarterback" the missteps of companies like Kodak, Blockbuster, Nokia, Neiman Marcus and others who were fatally disrupted. It is quite...