Innovation isn’t…

Michael Schrage, speaking at the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance conference (10th anniversary – happy birthday!) in Portland Thursday night (I’ll be giving the luncheon keynote Friday), offered this important reminder: Innovation...

Top tools

Forbes profiles the 20 greatest tools of all time. Guess what? Our current favorites didn’t make the cut.

da Vinci’s 7 Principles

daVinci to coolmel to Hohmann to Liebert to you:da Vinci’s 7 PrinciplesCuriosit½ – An insatiably curious approach to life and an unrelenting quest for continuous learning.Dimostrazione – A commitment to test knowledge through experience, persistance,...

Godin: One life per fax

[Seth Godin]: I’m interrupting my regular stream of rants and interesting thoughts to ask you to do something before you leave work today. Send a fax to your Senators and one to your congressperson. (get the contact info here: Contacting the Congress.)...

Innovation budgets

Innovation is not proportional to money spent, the folks at 37 signals remind us. When has innovation ever simply been a function of money spent? Which of the big two operating system companies are most often characterized as pushing the envelope and who spends the...