How to Be the Idea Person on Your Team
Are all of your dots the same color? I talk about dots a lot. That’s because dots are the key to innovation, creativity, and breakthrough thinking. Most people get this wrong. They think that...
View ArticleYou Don’t Have to Change the World to Be an Innovator
If I were to ask you to name an innovation, what would you say? The iPhone? The Tesla? The Internet? Maybe not any of those three. But the odds are that whatever you name would be a biggie. Something...
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How to Come Up With Breakthrough Ideas
Do you want to know where breakthrough ideas really come from? I’ll give you a clue: they don’t come from some lightning bolt in the sky. Breakthrough ideas, almost invariably, are found at the...
View ArticleHow to Cultivate a Disruption Mindset
Disruption. It’s more than just a corporate buzzword. It’s the new way of the world. Amazon did it with retail. Uber did it with transportation. Apple did it with phones and other devices. Disruption,...
View ArticleThe Difference Between Breakthrough Thinkers and the Rest of Us
We all run into obstacles. Maybe it’s a business change that we don’t like; a traffic jam when we’re already late; a system or process that feels overly cumbersome. But we all run into obstacles. And...
View ArticleWhy You Need More Distractions in Your Life
I grew up in the shadow of an Amish dairy farm (depending on where the sun was, of course) in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Now, if you’ve spent as much time around the Amish as I have, you know that...
View ArticleHow to Be the Disruptor and Not the Disrupted
You’ve heard of FOMO, right? Fear Of Missing Out. It’s why we’re addicted to Facebook and Instagram and all the rest. It’s why we tell our devices to notify us the instant anything happens anywhere in...
View ArticleHow to Become a Breakthrough Thinker in Two Easy Steps
In a rapidly changing and increasingly competitive world, the next breakthrough idea wins. Depending on how you feel about #innovation, #creativity, and #breakthrough thinking, you may find this...
View ArticleWhich of These 4 Is You?
Innovation and change are intertwined. And when change—particularly disruptive change—happens, organizations tend to fall into one of 4 places. Can you tell where you are?If you're a video person, I...
View ArticleWhy Your Innovation Initiative Doesn’t Last
Have you ever tried to implement an innovative change (with your team, perhaps?), only to find that things gradually regress to the way they were before? Maybe the problem is that you're declaring...
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