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Innovation and Creativity for the Darwinian CEO
One of the hottest IPOs of 2006 was Heelys, the company that started a nationwide fad of skating around in shoes with wheels in them. (If you have the misfortune of living near a suburban mall, you can't help but notice little tykes whizzing past you every few minutes on their Heelys). Anyway, how ...
Fans of the now-deceased Business Innovation Insider may remember that I posted about a live simulcast of the Metropolitan Opera in Times Square last fall. It was all part of a broader strategy by the Met to bring opera to the masses (people in Times Square were actually stopping and looking up ...
Over at the IdeaPort blog, Roger Dennis presents a PG-13 rated list of ten reasons why innovation is like tantric sex: 1. You can read lots about it, but there’s no substitute for doing it. 2. Lots of people talk about it, but few people know actually know how it works. 3. You can ...
One of the free online features of today's Wall Street Journal is a trailer for Bollywood's version of the Rocky Balboa story. (Look carefully - that's not Sylvester Stallone, that's some Indian actor who looks remarkably like him) The Indian film industry is innovative and thriving - why did it ...
If you're looking for a quick Google fix this week, Information Week is dealing. Start off by learning more about Larry Page's pet innovation projects. Apparently, the Google co-founder thinks there is a real market in under-developed parts of the world for ultralight planes capable of traveling ...
This weekend's New York Times Magazine featured a great cover story on Toyota, which explained how the Japanese company has become the acknowledged leader in the global automobile industry. At a time when Ford and GM are downsizing and rightsizing, the incredible Toyota engineering team continues ...
Let's face it - deep down, you secretly long to create a popular YouTube video clip that you can brag about to your friends and colleagues. About two weeks ago in the Wall Street Journal, personal technology guru Walt Mossberg explained just how easy it is to make one of these clips: "Everyone ...
As part of its "Works & Process" series of events, the Guggenheim Museum in New York is presenting a lecture by legendary physicist, mathematician and futurist Freeman Dyson of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study in early March. The lecture is titled "How We Might Have Gone to Mars in 1965 ...
As the Arizona Republic explains, for the past 2 1/2 years, a team of researchers at Arizona State and the University of Pittsburgh have been using a mix of anthropology, 3-D scanning, and digital reconstruction to figure out what George Washington actually looked like at ages 19, 45, and 57 ...
So, I was thumbing through the most recent issue of FORTUNE magazine and clipping out some advertisements from corporate sponsors that touched on the innovation theme. I came up with three different ads -- tell me which one you like best. (At the end of the blog post, I'll tell you my choice) ...
Every week, the Wall Street Journal publishes a quick-and-dirty "Tricks of the Trade" column with an expert within a certain field. Some weeks, it might be a wine sommelier at a fancy restaurant explaining how to preserve a bottle of wine overnight, while other weeks, it might be a big-shot ...
Bruce Nussbaum's post over at Business Week about the Backlash Against Innovation has started to resonate throughout the innovation community. While Bruce points out that the real work about innovation is just getting started, he also acknowledges that many in the business community and the media ...
Marketing guru Seth Godin coins new terms and expressions on a regular basis, and this time, he's decided to trade in his Purple Cow for a Purple Sheep. As Godin explains, Sheepwalking refers to the process of just going through the motions and being afraid to fail - and this type of activity ...
If you've ever flown out of New York City, you know that it can be a nightmare actually getting out of Manhattan to the airport -- it doesn't matter if you fly out of LGA, JFK or even EWR. Plus, with all the anti-terrorism measures enacted since 9/11, getting through security and checking in at ...
This has to be one of the most interesting events of the year - the first-ever New Yorker conference on innovation. The tab ($1,200), though, is a bit steep, unless there's a high probability of actually mingling with the likes of James Surowiecki (The Wisdom of Crowds), Malcolm Gladwell (The ...