Good, evil and technology: a fun philosophical inquiry
Flipping through old essays I found this one from 2005 – it’s one my favorite but most overlooked essays.…
Category: Innovation
The Kindle’s place in Innovation history
My innovation hype detector went off in this NYT piece on the Kindle. The offending quote is as follows:…
Healthcare as an innovation problem
I’ve been loosely following the healthcare debate in the U.S. and there are some obvious points for innovation gone…
The Netflix Inc. guide to culture (Analysis)
Making the rounds this week is this slidedeck apparently put together by Netflix upper management about their culture. There…
The other myths of innovation?
There’s been buzz around two recent articles listing myths of innovation, one from CIO Insight and another from CEOForum,…
Calling bullshit on social media
While I like and use Facebook and Twitter, there’s enough hype and abuse of words like innovation, transformation and…
How to let go: a lesson from NASA
Everybody likes to criticize NASA for various reasons. There’s the budget problems, various $100 million blunders, and of course…
Innovation case study: Opera Web browser
Of all the stories in the web world, the story of the Opera web browser is one of the…
The end of Encarta
Microsoft recently announced the end of the product known as Encarata. Way back in the day Encarta was cool.…
Where do your ideas die? (With a bad illustration)
I’m stuck in the Vancouver airport, waiting for them to find a new plane. Hard to complain about waiting…
Free $600 ticket to Monday’s MasterClass (San Francisco)
Next Monday, March 30th, I’m teaching my full day course on how to lead and manage breakthrough projects in…
Q&A from today’s webcast
Thanks to everyone who tuned in – we had almost 300 people according to WebEx. The webcast will be…
Wednesday Linkfest
Tons of good stuff this week: The evolution of a project manager – Interesting take on the various levels…
Live webcast: How progress happens, Free! March 19th
Next week I’m doing a fun, live, one hour webcast on my latest thinking about progress and innovation. The…
Best advice I’ve seen for web startups
In 25 minutes, David Heinemeier Hannson of 37 Signals slices through most of the nonsense and hype around startup…
Where are the female geniuses?
I’m getting a bit of roasting over on Forbes.com for gender bias – there were exactly zero women mentioned…
New video: How progress happens
The folks at the Tools of Change conference posted a video of my talk this week on How Progress…
Therapy and innovation hype!
Thanks to Tiff Fehr, I found this Insightful post over at Chris Fahey’s graphpaper.com about innovation hype and the…
Dr. Seuss, wicked constraints, and creative thinking
One interesting theme in the research I’ve done on creative thinking is the role constraints play in fueling creativity. Many…
Should websites get movie style age ratings?
The UK culture secretary has fanned an old flame: PG/PG-13/R style ratings for websites. It’s an old idea, one…