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Top 20 Innovation posts of the week: Smartfailing

Thanks to all the people who share links there was lots of content this week so the list ended up being longer than usual, all worth reading.   Smartfailing – a new concept for learning through failure by @lindegaard Innovate, … [Read more]

Strategy starts with identifying changes

Pay attention to this McKinsey Quarterly interview of Richard Rumelt, professor of strategy at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management: … [Read more]

Don’t waste people’s time. Help them do more

The gap between what is right now and where others are become very obvious when you go from one extreme to another. This past week I spent a little time with a friend I’ve known since kindergarten as he just opened a restaurant in Mexico and I went … [Read more]

Innovation posts of the week: Innovation is not creativity

Disruptive Thinking: 5 attributes to consider by @jjsviokla Top 5 Innovation Trends via @innovate Is Innovation a Process or an Outcome? via @ralph_ohr  Innovation Lessons From Tarzan by @skap5 How biases, … [Read more]

Innovations begin when the system is stuck

All great innovations emerge out of rigidity. They are born when someone recognizes that the system - the company, the industry, the country - has frozen and can no longer react to new opportunities or threats. When this rigid state appears in the … [Read more]

Find insights in unlikely places

Insights, they’re the seeds of new groundbreaking ideas. I was watching the BBC documentary on the life of autistic celebrity Temple Grandin and was intrigued at how her hug machine invention was born out of an unlikely insight from cow … [Read more]

Innovation posts of the week: Innovation is everyone’s business

Innovation is Everyone’s Business by @artpetty Innovation is interrelated and interdependent  by @ovoinnovation Innovation Herds: Me-too-ism & the dumbness of crowds by @drewcm Here's The Sad News About Best … [Read more]