Which innovations have done the most to change people’s lives?
The NY Times wrote a very interesting article about how we lived in 1870, 1920, 1970 compared with now; trying to answer the question: what was the greatest era of innovation? …
Archive for: May, 2016
Here’s A Great Workshop Exercise To Help Your Leadership Team Challenge Their Beliefs / Assumptions
How do you think what no one else thinks? Innovators come to their insights in various ways, one is by questioning deeply held beliefs / assumptions inside companies and industries about what drives success.
You see, innovation is as much about attitude and perspective as it is about process. By challenging the status quo innovators gain the necessary perspective to be able to see things anew.
When A.I. Serves As A Mafia Capo
in Podcast
What happens when crime scales, exponentially; thanks to artificial intelligence? Welcome to the world when A.I. serves as a Mafia Capo.
Continuing our discussion from last week’s episode on humanizing virtual assistants, the next step is for those virtual assistants to act on our behalf; or on their own. …
Do Aspiring Movie Directors Need Hollywood To Be Successful?
What do you do when you move your whole family to pursue your dream of making movies in Hollywood and it doesn’t work out? You try again…
And head back home to Mexico; more specifically Tijuana.…
Use Or Lose: Nurture Your Talent
Call it brilliance, talent or anything you want, it exists and shouldn’t be taker for granted. If you don’t value brilliance, you don’t value innovation. I wrote that post a few weeks ago and it hit a nerve. It sounds harsh, but it’s true. How true?
Here’s an example……
Do We Really Want Our Virtual Assistants To Be More Human?
in Innovation, Podcast
Apple, Amazon, Google, and others are pushing us to use our voices rather than our fingers to interact with their products. But do we really want our assistants to be more human?…
Stop Saying Innovation and Just Do It
In a world where everyone pays lips service to innovation, what’s next? If not innovation, then what do we call it?
My co-host Adrian brought to my attention a business that markets itself as an “innovator” but is clearly doing none of it. The fact that the business is called Innova Media Creative Group should tell you everything.
Hint: You suck if you use the words creativity and innovation in your business name. Period. …