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In the latest McKinsey digital newsletter, Mark Marino muses that innovation is like a coral reef: nobody quite understands what causes reefs to form, but human actions can nurture or harm the process. Silicon Valley, he says, is an innovation reef, started...
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In Business Week’s July 27 issue, there’s a simple chart that tells a big story. Creative Beginnings in a Downturn shows that Hewlett Packard learned to buy game-changing companies in recessions, that Genetech leaned to use strategic partners when they...
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Despite our shiny new iPhones and flat screen TV’s, the June 15th cover story in Business Week laments that in the last decade American innovation has failed to live up to its promises. No cure for cancer. Still driving gas guzzlers. In fact, Mandel suggests...
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Jack Ma, CEO of Alibaba.com, runs one of the most successful business-to-business marketplaces in the world. He’s profiled under "Builders and Titans" in Time magazine’s 100 most influential people. His keys to success? “We had no money. We...
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The June issue of Psychology Today is what I’d call the Recession Issue. There are articles about getting laid off, working as a free-lancer, relationships to money, relying on friendships, and failure. If there’s a unifying theme, it could be that this...
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As an advertising professional, you couldn’t miss the launch of the revolutionary new Saturn some twenty years ago. Never mind that it wasn’t an engineering marvel. It was built by GM, but created in a clean new plant with friendly labor relations, sold...
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The Wall Street Journal is calling it the iPod Lesson—and it’s more proof that investing in innovation during hard times pays off. The amazing 9-minute Kraft macaroni and cheese, launched in 1937. Miracle fiber nylon, 1938. And, of course, iPod in 2001...
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Business Week’s Top 50 Best Performing Companies from the S&P 500, as you might expect, has some pretty sobering news. Because it’s figured on a three-year average, some of the companies that made the list are now going through layoffs, reduced earnings...
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“Off and on” over the last couple of weeks I have been filling in my free time viewing inspiring talks from the annual TED Conference on the web. The presentations are less than 20 minutes long and cover the wide range of topics which have been delivered...
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Why on earth is this fellow driving on the highway with a metal helmet blocking his view? Why is mythology important to the launch of the world’s least expensive car? What do consumers mean by “green” behavior? What do different family members want from...
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Sunday’s New York Times had an article by G. Pascal Zachary titled “Inside Nairobi, The Next Palo Alto” . The author points out that most technological innovation is created either in wealthy countries or in China and India. Yet, the rest of the world...
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Over the last few years, functional MRI testing has given researchers the ability to see inside the brain in real time. Now, according to this month’s Scientific American Mind, researchers at the National Institutes of Health have used jazz pianists to...
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“The customer is the company. Threadless churns out dozens of new items a month – with no advertising, no professional designers, no sales force, and no retail distribution. And it has never produced a flop.” The above title and quote is from the current...
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I just returned from the World Innovation Forum in New York, where hundreds of business people and academics gathered to hear the experts in the field. MacArthur Genius Award winner Amory Lovins told us how to reduce reliance on oil through eliminating...
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