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Issues and Emotions

Issues are abstract, but people and their emotions are real. We decide with emotion and justify (read: fool ourselves) with logic.

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I Spy Good Problems

James Altucher and others popularized the idea of becoming an “idea machine” with the practice of developing your ideation muscles by generating 10-20 ideas per day. But how do you develop your innovation, problem solving, and creativity muscles?

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Converting invention to innovation

Converting Invention to Innovation

Steel, paper currency, the transistor, and penicillin. There are but a few examples of the lengthy journey from invention to breakthrough innovation. Invention can be fairly rapid, sudden, and dramatic. But converting invention to innovation is typically long, arduous, and hard.

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Changing Interaction

To successfully navigate change, leaders and organizations need to change—not just in how we behave as individual people and entities, but in how we interact with others.

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What’s It Not For?

Trying to be all things dilutes and muddies a clear purpose. Failing to draw boundaries pulls you back from the edges of possibility and innovation. If you want to know what something is for, get clear about what it’s not for.

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Observations and perspectives

Observations and Perspectives

Oftentimes, we tend to think of our own observations as facts. We think we believe what we believe because we’re right, but this isn’t the case and it limits our perspectives

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