Everything is a Remix
There’s a great series of short films on Creativity, called Everything is a Remix, by Kirby Ferguson. It explores…
Category: Innovation
Why Great Ideas Fail
I ran a session at FOO camp on Why Great Ideas Fail. The goal was to leave the room with…
Q&A from Innovation webcast
As promised, here are answers to all of the questions from Yesterday’s Webcast on Innovation. mFree chapters for The…
Free Webinar: The Myths of Innovation, live
Update: You missed it. It’s over. But you can read the Q&A and watch the recording here. Thanks to…
Why you get ideas in the shower
[This is an excerpt from the Dance of the Possible: the mostly honest, completely irreverent guide to creativity] When…
Innovation by Death: A Theory
One point from the often referenced, but rarely read, Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Kuhn, is true revolutionary progress…
Innovation Abuse: a case study
I’ve written before that we’d all be better off if people stopped saying Innovation. Calling something innovative doesn’t make…
Innovators, imitators and idiots
Nice little thought from Warren Buffet, quoted in a good piece on Harvard Business about Why smart people do dumb…
The Internet changes nothing
Thanks to Ario for this provocative essay on the effect of the web, called The Internet Changes Nothing. There…
Innovation vs. Usability: In numbers
Playing around with the new Google Labs Ngram viewer (which searches for usage of words in the entire google…
Ray Ozzie, Microsoft and change
I’d occasionally get asked what I thought of Ray Ozzie at Microsoft. I’d say this “Great guy, a worthy…
Q&A from Myths webcast
Here’s the Q&A from my Myths day podcast about the new edition of The Myths of Innovation. Apologies for…
Top Ten Innovation Myths in the U.S.
A surprise for #Mythsday – I’m now writing for the Huffington Post. First article is fun top ten, slide…
Have an Innovation question? I will answer!
For tommorow’s webcast I’m promising to answer any questions on innovation, creativity or creative work you ask. All you…
The wonder of assembly lines (My day at Ford)
On my recent trip to Detroit, I saw many interesting things. I saw Jeff Gurney sing at the Red…
Book Review: Where Good Ideas Come From
Sometimes life provides happy surprises. I contacted Steven Johnson this summer asking for a blurb for the new edition…
The Idea Approval Index
Many leaders talk about progress, but overlook simple indicators. One easy measure is the Idea Approval Index (IAI). To…
Lessons from Google Wave and MSFT Kin
I’m a fan of things going wrong. It’s only when things go wrong that anyone pays attention enough to…
The Acceleration of Addictiveness
Paul Graham wrote about the acceleration of addictiveness and it troubled me. He wrote: What hard liquor, cigarettes, heroin, and crack…
The Innovator’s SourceBook
Dan Roberts is the author of an interesting little book called The Innovator’s Sourcebook. While it’s aimed more at…