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The Ten Myths of Innovation: the best summary (Updated)
The timeless patterns that explain how innovation happens, or more often doesn’t, are explained in the bestselling book I…
Upcoming speaking engagements near you (Bellevue, Chicago, Minneapolis, San Diego)
Here are a few speaking engagements over the next few weeks: April 1st, Bellevue, 6:30pm, Microsoft Retail Store (details)…
A class full of The Myths of Innovation
Many universities use The Myths of Innovation in courses on entrepreneurship or creativity, but David Burkus lined up his…
Grand summary of posts on Remote work & Yahoo
With my upcoming book about my experience at WordPress.com, where everyone works from home, I’ve been following the Yahoo announcement closely.…
The Redemption of Jonah Lehrer?
Twitter is aflutter today with talk of Jonah Lehrer, the (in)famous young author caught fabricating quotes, about his recent…
Best of Berkun
I’ve written 1400+ posts, and eight books, on many topics over the 16 years this website has existed. If…
Do you want a bar in your workplace?
Taking the question of how much does your workplace affect creativity in a new direction, the folks at Janelia…
Idea beginnings and endings
The beginning of a very bad idea often feels very good. And the beginning of a very good idea…
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…
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Scott Berkun is a bestselling author and popular speaker on UX design, innovation, leading teams, public speaking and other…
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…
How To Be Creative – The Short Honest Truth
After a decade studying how creatives do what they do the answer is simple: they work. No one wants…
How To Get Paid To Speak
Many people attend lectures at events and think: “I could do better than that” or “I have an amazing…
Software Is Not Epic
[Updated August 6th, 2019] “The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in…
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,…
In Defense of Brainstorming
Periodically popular articles arise decrying brainstorming as flawed (Jonah Lehrer’s article in the New Yorker, Groupthink: the brainstorming myth, is…
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…
On Insecurity and Writing
A good friend mentioned he’d write more often if he dealt with his insecurities about writing. I look at…