Good Beats Innovative Nearly Every Time
[This post originally published on Bloomberg / BusinessWeek, February, 2010] One troubling phenomenon is the push for everyone to…
Category: Innovation
The Amazing Invention of Braille
While studying to write the Myths of Innovation I read hundreds of accounts of how world changing inventions were…
Innovation is an illusion
Here is a good thought experiment: Consider the last time you walked into a convenience store . Perhaps you grabbed…
I answer MBA student questions about Innovation
Liz Barclay at Oakland University, is using the Myths of Innovation in a MBA course on creativity. I offer…
Why we’re wrong about the phone of the future
I recently read a fine article in the Atlantic called iPhone 5? Yawn. What Will the ‘Phone’ of 2022…
9 ways to understand how ideas spread
A reader named Niko, who is working on a PhD in social network analysis, asked me for my favorite…
Does dedicated innovation time work?
I wrote a popular post awhile ago with an analysis on the Google’s 20% time concept. Howard Baldwin from Computerworld…
Listen to my interview with NPR on innovation
The fine folks at WGBH posted the entire interview. Topics covered include: language abuse and hype consumer culture Top…
I’ll be on NPR Tuesday 6/19, 1pm EST (WGBH – Boston)
I’ll be on WGBH Boston talking about innovation tomorrow, Tuesday, at 1pm EST. You should be able to listen…
The problem with The New Groupthink
I’m an introvert. I like being an introvert. I’m glad someone is clarifying what introverts are or are not,…
The 5 best books on Innovation EVER
Before I share the list of the 5 best books on innovation, here’s a list of 5 things you…
Do crazy innovations affect serious subjects?
Kestutis Gardziulis, one of my kickstarter supporters for Mindfire, asked this question: How do “crazy” innovations affect serious subjects?…
Take my course on Innovation, online, right now
A secret project I did with O’Reilly Media is now available online. For years I’ve taught full day workshops…
Innovation vs. mere improvement: how do you know what you have?
As part of my gift to some of my kickstarter supporters for Mindfire, I offered to write a blog…
The Jobsian fallacy
I’m sad Steve Jobs is gone. I’m sadder still to see the shallow thinking that circles his name. There…
Why Jobs is No Edison
An excellent and historically thorough comparison of Thomas Edison’s and Steve Job’s accomplishments: Some 130 years after Edison’s remarkable…
Missing maps and the fragility of technology
Recently Tim O’Reilly wrote about how using maps on his phone, and assuming they’d work where he was going,…
Video: My lecture on future of Vaccines
Last month I spoke at Crucell, one of the leading organizations in the world for inventing vaccines. I gave a…
How do you invent vaccines? An interview
Last month I had the honor of being the opening speaker at an event at Crucell, an organization that…
The end of Google Labs
Today Google announced they’re closing Google Labs, their collection of living prototypes and experiments. It will be overstated in…