The Other Side of Growth
The forces of change are gaining strength. Take note of these recent events: 1) Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff writes a […]
How to Take Meaning from a Black Swan Event
“Wind extinguishes a candle but energizes a fire. Likewise with randomness, uncertainty, chaos: you want to use them, not hide […]
Creative Construction – Book review
Highlights Well-respected Harvard Business School professor and HBR contributor Gary Pisano has weighed in on the topic of large company […]
Machine, Platform, Crowd
by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson One of the issues with the vast amount being written about digital transformation that there […]
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
By Kevin Kelly The main contribution of Kelly, in his previous book ‘What Technology Wants’ and in this one, is […]
Social Physics
By Alex Pentland … flows of ideas are central to understanding society not only because timely information is critical to efficient […]
Innovation Quarterly – Summer 2015
Does your company have an explicit innovation strategy? (Hint: It’s not the same as your corporate business strategy.) If not, […]
Left Brain Right Stuff: How Leaders Make Winning Decisions
By Phil Rosenzweig This is a book about decision-making, but where it stands apart from the many that have come […]
Seeing What Others Don’t: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights
By Gary Klein Gary Klein is a psychologist who became interested in how people gain insights – those “aha” moments […]
Innovation Quarterly – Winter 2015
We chose the pursuit of strategic opportunities as the theme of this IQ since these are the opportunities that significantly […]
The Innovators : How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
By Walter Isaacson If you have not yet read Walter Isaacson’s previous book, “Steve Jobs,” I highly recommend it. It […]
Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It
by Ian Leslie Innovation is a knowledge game, and the best innovators invariably have a richer supply of knowledge than […]
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
By Steven Johnson In his most recent book, Steven Johnson, the author or the well-regarded Where Good Ideas Come From, […]
Innovation Quarterly – Summer 2014
This is our eighth installment of our Innovation Quarterly (you can now see past issues on our website here). Since we […]
Review – Cultural Strategy: Using Innovative Ideologies to Build Breakthrough Brands
Cultural Strategy: Using Innovative Ideologies to Build Breakthrough Brands by Douglas Holt and Douglas Cameron Reviewed by Brian Christian “Consumers – the […]