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Reading Malcolm Gladwell’s new book, What the Dog Saw, I was struck by his descriptions of infomercial king Ron Popeil and the famous copywriter, Shirley Polykoff, who made hair coloring acceptable, and changed women’s looks for half a century. These...
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On the same day the world is mourning the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who started the green revolution that transformed Asia and saved billions of lives, the Wall Street Journal is also honoring the 2009 Technology Innovation winners. The Gold goes...
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In Fortune Small Business magazine this month, the cover story features innovation in small business, and how to achieve it. And for those who think that innovation takes a large R & D budget, there are some eye-opening statistics: • Small business...
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Business Week calls them under-the-radar start-ups in alternative energy, and warns that they may not be the ground floor opportunities that investors are seeking. What’s amazing about this list, however, is the wide range of approaches these companies...
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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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Can color affect your creativity? In a study in the online version of Science magazine today, researchers at the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia discovered that the wall color in your room or the color on your computer...
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Amidst all the bad financial news, you may have overlooked a column in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal by Innovation Guru Clayton Christensen. According to him, these times are actually good for innovators. Why would that be, since R & D budgets are...
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In Business Week’s Innovation supplement dated November 20, Steve LeVine offers a summary of innovation prizes for everything from space travel and hydrogen-fueled vehicles to faster airport checkpoints. Citing Peter Diamandis, who sponsored the X prize...
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One of the sacrosanct rules of brainstorming is that criticism isn’t allowed. Yet according to a new study from Berkeley psychology professor Charlan Nemeth and grad student Matthew Feinberg, enforcing that rule can lead to less creative sessions. The...
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The first week of the Design (and Innovation) Management Class I teach with Alladi Venkatesh and Raymond Pirouz, as always, reminds me that Design Thinking is at the heart of all innovation. It's not just about designing new products, or even new...
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A recent story in the Wall Street Journal has a nifty map which demonstrates that people with different—presumably inherent—character traits cluster in different states. Neurotic? Definitely hang out in the Northeast or the Mississippi Delta. Openness...
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For hard-driving business people, it's hard to imagine, but the best way to solve those knotty problems may just be to forget about it and get a good night’s sleep. According to research cited in Scientific American Mind this month, your brain keeps...
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Preparing for the class I teach with Alladi Venkatesh on Design and Innovation Management, I’ve been reading the Henry Dreyfuss classic, Designing for People, published in 1955. From the thirties to the sixties, he designed everything from flyswatters...
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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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