In business we are trained to be analytical. We respect data, targets, percentages, market shares and ratios. MBA students analyse case studies with detailed spreadsheets.
Get Rid of the Cynics
You don’t want happy people working for you – you want passionate people.
You don’t want happy people working for you – you want passionate people.
Bland Products Upset No-One but Delight No-One.
South Park is a highly successful cartoon sitcom created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for the Comedy Central TV network.
South Park is a highly successful cartoon sitcom created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for the Comedy Central TV network.
Seven Verbs Which Define Great Leaders of Innovation
Leaders of innovation have a bias for action.
Leaders of innovation have a bias for action.
Adversity Can Spur Creativity
These artists demonstrate how adversity and suffering can be powerful fuel for creativity, enabling the creation of dramatic and innovative works of art.
These artists demonstrate how adversity and suffering can be powerful fuel for creativity, enabling the creation of dramatic and innovative works of art.
Replace Confusion With Clarity
If you want to succeed with a start-up or indeed with any innovative idea then it greatly helps if you can simply explain exactly what it is.
If you want to succeed with a start-up or indeed with any innovative idea then it greatly helps if you can simply explain exactly what it is.
Use a Fake Failure to Boost Your Chance of Success
You might consider this idea to be somwehat underhand but it does seem to be very lateral and it might be highly effective in improving your bid.
You might consider this idea to be somwehat underhand but it does seem to be very lateral and it might be highly effective in improving your bid.
Every Problem Is an Opportunity for Innovation
Sometimes you can snatch an innovation victory from a problem or a potential business defeat.
Sometimes you can snatch an innovation victory from a problem or a potential business defeat.
Seven Ways to Invigorate Your Presentation
How many times have you been bored rigid by conference speakers?
How many times have you been bored rigid by conference speakers?
Harness the Random With This Method
The use of chance is a key element in lateral thinking. How can you deliberately introduce chance into your creative thinking?
The use of chance is a key element in lateral thinking. How can you deliberately introduce chance into your creative thinking?
Barbie the Innovator
Barbie, the iconic fashion doll created by Ruth Handler and launched by the American toy company Mattel in 1959.
Barbie, the iconic fashion doll created by Ruth Handler and launched by the American toy company Mattel in 1959.
Messy Beats Tidy
’ We have seen again and again that real creativity, excitement and humanity lie in the messy parts of life, not the tidy ones.’
’We have seen again and again that real creativity, excitement and humanity lie in the messy parts of life, not the tidy ones.’
50 Ways to Stifle Innovation
Don’t mess with success.
Don’t mess with success. Treat failure with fear.
The Innovation Gender Gap
A report by the Kaufmann Foundation found that only 3% of technology start-ups are led by women. There are many theories for this remarkable gender discrepancy.
A report by the Kaufmann Foundation found that only 3% of technology start-ups are led by women. There are many theories for this remarkable gender discrepancy.
The Hostility of Tribes
Why are tribes so hostile to those who depart from the norms of the tribe?
Why are tribes so hostile to those who depart from the norms of the tribe?
How Will We Solve Problems Like Global Warming?
The great advances mankind has enjoyed in health, prosperity, food production and longevity are largely taken for granted. Around one billion people have been taken out of extreme poverty in the last 20 years.
The great advances mankind has enjoyed in health, prosperity, food production and longevity are largely taken for granted. Around one billion people have been taken out of extreme poverty in the last 20 years.