What is Failure?

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about my hatred of failure while acknowledging that there are things I hate more (inertia, blind allegiance to the status quo, unwillingness to try) that motivate me to risk it. In response, I…

Mystery of Stonehenge Solved

by Braden Kelley Forget about capturing and reverse engineering alien spacecraft to gain a competitive edge in the innovation race. Sorry, but the universe is billions of years old and even if some extra terrestrial civilization millions or billions of…

When Innovation Becomes Magic

GUEST POST from Pete Foley Arthur C Clarke’s 3rd Law famously stated: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” In other words, if the technology of an advanced civilization is so far beyond comprehension,…

Four Questions That Make Better Innovators

GUEST POST from Greg Satell In 1999, the day before his eighth startup went public, Steve Blank decided to retire at the age of 45. With time to reflect, he sat in a ski lodge and began to write a memoir with a “lessons learned” section at the end of e…

Underground Innovation

How giving people space can make a big difference to your innovation profile GUEST POST from John Bessant If you’d snuck up behind me last weekend you’d have caught me in the act of painting walls. Not the most exciting of pursuits but it needed to be …