The first step in creativity is to capture your ideas quickly, before they dissipate.

The key to surviving the jungle is to quickly orient yourself so that you can SURVIVE long enough to grow the SKILLS you need to survive there.

Sometimes you might have the maturity, the experience, the strength, the resources … and still not be doing your best because there are skills you don’t yet have in your toolbag. Need a coach?

It seems that economic times in the United States and around the world might be moving toward getting tougher. This article gives 10 steps that will help you to innovate forward, not shrink back, when you have little or no extra time, people, or money to invest in innovation.

Who knew that small nudges, easy to implement, could make you the winner in a photo-finish innovation battle?

This is a follow up to the 2022jun23 blog on “Focusing your choices, guided by the Kelly algorithm”.

Don’t wait until you’re too old, too attached, too anything … to release the old and embrace the new. Don’t wait until it’s “too hard to part”. Let go while you still can.

How do YOU measure your team performance, in a way that the members don’t corrupt what you’re trying to achieve?

Do your innovative ideas start and advance by process? Or by accident? I give a short diagnostic test.

Are you ready to make your Declaration of Innovation in the second half of 2022?

We often make decisions “driven by data” rather than “guided by gut”. Here I describe an algorithm (the Kelly algorithm) that can help us make effective use of a few key data.

Here are three things I believe deeply about innovation, profit, and processes.

Assemble your “STREAMS” to make a valuable machine for producing fast, high value, repeatable innovation throughput.

Changing careers or disciplines can be scary, but can be revitalizing. If you feel a need to change, you can do it!

In your innovation work, consider how all the dimensions of an offering will Serve your Customer, not just how the product or service at hand will do so.

Can decline and death happen to YOUR company? Read the blog post to find the answer.

Processes build all your collective intelligence into production. Why not give it a try for innovation?