How Do You Progress? Keep Moving Forward, No Matter What Recently, we’ve been running several foresight exercises to consider the future of certain technologies more… Read More »People Drive Progress And Disruption, Not Technology
Innovation is beyond dangerous, awesome, and wonderful. Innovation is central to your company, but at the same time, innovation is dangerous. Innovation can be a… Read More »Innovation Is Dangerous
ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Plenty of companies, like Kodak, Nokia, and Blackberry (previously known as Research in Motion or RIM) weren’t able to change fast enough when disruption… Read More »Do You Fail To Change When You Need To?
Build Your Next Unicorn With These Three Simple Steps The startup scene is pretty rife with founders using a problem that they have themselves to… Read More »How To Build Unicorns: Actually Solve Your Own Problem
As We Spend Less Time Face To Face, Trust Is Key In the day before the internet, trust was developed by knowing someone personally. It came… Read More »Do You Trust Me?
There are still some things only humans can do I remember visiting Yahoo! back in 1995, just before everything exploded here in Silicon Valley –… Read More »We Still Need Humans For Those Things Robots Can’t Do
Just announced: Microsoft buys LinkedIn, who, if you ask me, never really fulfilled their true promise of being a network to conduct business.
The Solution to the High Cost Of Housing Is Modular Tiny Houses…But Will They Be Allowed? Here in the San Francisco Bay area (and likely… Read More »Urban Housing Crisis? Let Tiny Houses Run Free
Disrupted shows an older worker trying to fit into a startup culture where ageism abounds – how do you defeat this stuff?
Once upon a time, there were two types of humans… As a futurist, I was always a big fan of depictions of the future –… Read More »105 Innovation Is A War Between The DoIts And The ShouldWes
Can We Make Ourselves Superhuman? Science fiction and comic books are rife with stories of the “more than human” human – either biologically enhanced through… Read More »How Our Devices Can Make Us Superhuman
One of the ways we innovate in our workshops – take the maze backward.
When I was young, I enjoyed doing mazes in paper books. You know the kind I’m talking about – thin or thick newsprint paper books… Read More »Ways We Innovate: Take The Maze Backwards
If you want REAL stability in your work life, you MUST start your own business. Being an entrepreneur returns the control of your life to… Read More »92 Your Career In Turmoil? Do A Startup
Are We Turning Into A Collective Consciousness? I have been binge-watching Star Trek: Voyager (such a geek, right – I love those 90s hairstyles). One… Read More »The Rise Of Homo Nexus: Are We Now The Borg Collective?
IMHO, Twitter should return to its roots and not try to emulate every other social network.
In the current world of work, work has exploded into LEGO blocks that we fit into life, not the other way around.
Why Most Startups Fail: The Product It never ceases to amaze me when startups fail, and the founders are crying in their beers that most… Read More »It’s The Product, Stupid!
Motivation – Shmotivation I’ve recently noted a number of posts that are simply inspirational quotes from others. Aside from a few quotes from William Gibson… Read More »Speak No Evil: Motivation Malarkey
