The Creative Power of Leisure
If you’re looking for a good book to take on vacation this summer, consider David Nasaw’s biography Andrew Carnegie. This is the story of an impoverished immigrant kid from Scotland who transformed himself into an American steel tycoon, philanthropist and social philosopher. Once you read about Carnegie’s work habits, you may question your own. Carnegie’s approach was to delegate the…
How Crowdsourcing Can Enhance Innovation Performance
Article first published as How Crowdsourcing Can Enhance Innovation Performance on Forbes.com. Disruption and digitization are changing the game for more and more industries, and more and more companies. As a result, traditional ways of approaching innovation are coming up short. What I’m beginning to see is that there’s a new way of practicing innovation being embraced by a growing…
How To Build Your Personal Innovation Strategy
Article first published as How To Build Your Personal Innovation Strategy on Forbes. Most of the discussion about disruption these days revolves around companies, less about the impact on people’s lives. In a time of exponential change and dislocation, it’s more important than ever to design a personal development road-map to keep you on course, no matter what gets thrown…
Four Ways to Avoid Being Replaced by a Robot
Honk if this sounds like you: You’re rushing from meeting to meeting putting out fire after fire. You’re multi-tasking, texting, and counting the days till vacation. Lately you’re noticing a huge trend: job automation. Airport ticket counters staffed by fewer and fewer agents. Parking garage attendants replaced by self-pay machines. Once hot jobs like data center manager disappearing into The…
Innovation Metrics: You Get What You Inspect, Not What You Expect
I often get asked about the top innovation metrics and how to properly measure innovation effectiveness. This is for good reason: metrics are essential to the success of any innovation initiative and often difficult to get right. Here’s my take on the subject and as well as some key insights that you can hope to gain from measuring your efforts.
