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(If you are dead tired of preambles that remind you that there’s been a crisis and all that, and want to get to the point quicker, skip the first
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This text was originally written for a somewhat slapdash edited volume on entrepreneurial passion, and as is at times my way I procrastinated with m
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Our society tends to narrate innovation in triumphalist and only triumphalist ways. As we, particularly in the West but increasingly as a global socie...
(This is merely the start of a longer piece on solutions and innovation I am planning, but thought it would be good to outline it here. It is very rou...
Colleagues, students, random gawkers, I wish I could say that I’m happy to see you here today, but I am not. In fact, I do not want to give this lectu...
There is an old adage, sometimes called “Hanlon’s razor”, which states the following: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by ...
Originally published on https://www.speakersassociates.com/blog/innovation-ambition-how-its-lost-and-how-you-can-regain-it
Innovation, that belov...
Do you need to know something in order to be able to teach it? It sounds like a silly question, and one that should be answered with a resounding “Yes...
In 2007 Robert Sutton, professor at Stanford University, wrote a book called The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One Tha...
Lifehacking, particularly in the field of productivity, has become our new obsession. Not a day goes by without some new input on how to optimize your...