As humans, we’ve been biased to go after short term results over long term results ever since we were primitives wandering the savannah. The ability to plan and think to the future, to save for tomorrow, to think about what is next, is something that only human beings have, along with the ability to think and reason. But like most humans, we are lazy, and only look as far out as we need to.
In every company, there are troublemakers. These are the radicals, those who don’t toe the party line, they use different processes, they don’t go through channels, they might say or do things that cause some discomfort. Some may describe them as “pains in the ass,” rogue elements which create all manner of disruption, and the company would be better served if they either just went away, or just shut themselves up and fell into place along with everyone else. You all know the type. The question ...
Do you know which role in your organization is ultimately responsible for innovation? Some people might guess the CTO or the CEO. If you have a dedicated innovation group, then it might be the Chief Innovation Officer (CINO), or the VP or Innovation, or some other senior leader with innovation in their title. But you’d be wrong. Innovation is more than a job title – its a risk-taking, experimental culture. It’s an ethos which looks it as a continuous improvement as well as groundbreaking new ide...
The story of Popsockets , founded by a philosophy major (just like me) is an awesome example of invention, design thinking and pivoting.
A fantastically interesting conversation as we discuss the future of work, culture change, agility, personal branding and much more. Here are the books we referenced. BTW, did you know that Warren Buffet spends 80% of his day reading? I know I'm slacking, are you? Drive, Daniel Pink Startup of You, Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari Homo Deus, a Brief History of Tomorrow, Yuval Noah Harari Activate Your Agile Career, Marti Konstant Designing Yo...
We unpack what it takes to build a successful brand right now - and it's not as hard and you might think. Its an amazing wide ranging interview with Henry Kaminski, Jr. – Founder of Unique Designz . We dig into the best way to have a unique voice among all of the other voices out there, talk about the past, present and future of branding, the ups and down of building a business, and talk about how we are both members of the Jeff Bezos club.
Your customers are trying to complete a specific task when they contact you - how easy do you make it?
Today's episode digs into AI based recruiting and bias. What if we did eliminate bias, but we didn’t think it was, because of the output of the system? Even with a fully transparent AI picking candidates, would we ever get to a fully unbiased system? Maybe, but I think that the only way we could do that is to allow the system to make the decisions and eliminate the human from the process. We all come with inherent biases that we can never eliminate – would it be ironic or not that the only way t...
To innovate – you must absorb many different sources of information – especially in the areas not in the area you are trying to innovate in, let those percolate in your brain, then apply them to your current challenges. If you don’t fill up your funnel with new materials, (as in new experiences, new learning, new people, new places), then it becomes challenging to solve problems with new solutions. You need to be a funnel – to capture many different and disparate sources into your head – capture...
Wondering what SEO even means anymore? We peel back the layers of work needed to get the organic relevancy you've always wanted. In discussion with Damon Burton of SEONational , we cover meta keywords (not a thing anymore), loading speed, mobile friendliness, intuitive structure, relevant content creation, getting quality backlinks , newsjacking, what cadence of blog posting is ideal, length of posts, video, podcasts, and a number of tools to test your site and make it better - gtmetrix , wp fas...
We talk about the past and future of AI and all of the elements of it - from computer vision to machine learning to data science. We cover AI taking your job, how virtual assistants work (and don't work), some of the most exciting breakthroughs in AI (many of which have just occurred in the last few years, as we finally have the data and the processing power to make them happen). We wrap up with how to start getting into AI. Her book, The Evolution of Artificial Intelligence: What You Must Know ...
We delve into deep data analysis, does it have the answer to every question? A while back I blogged about big data , and the possibility that with enough of it, we'd be able to answer every question. While this was a future vision, we may be there right now. Today, we have a great conversation with Rado Kotorov , a Technology Innovator and Leader and his new startup, Trendalyze . They do time series patterns discovery and analytics for IoT, transactional and event data, which may finally unlock ...
We chat with Bob Sager , author of 101 Freaking Brilliant Business Ideas: And Ten Ways YOU Can Create Your Own . We range from discussions on innovation and great new business ideas - how to get training to stick, and exercises to make you more creative.
Today we feature a great wide-ranging interview with Coach Mya from coachmya.com
Are you in it for the money, or are you in it to help people?
Automation should take jobs that humans are no longer fit to do, so we can be free to do more human jobs
Why is Elon Musk so interesting? He solves problems with solutions of the future - we need to invent new things before we can solve them.
How can you tell if your innovation is real or fake?
Ideas can never be right or wrong - everything is an experiment
Even if the unknown is better, we still fear it, which is a normal human reaction we need to conquer
When it comes to feedback to your inventors, saying nothing is worse than saying no.
Its still too difficult to configure things - we need to figure out a new generation of true plug-and-play
Your crowdsourced innovation program probably created too many ideas, so why not fund them all?
As we go through life, we experience it. And as we experience it, we make decisions to take on things that we need to do, actions that we need to take. As the world floods over us, we filter and capture an infinitesimally small portion of it, then decide to act on it. Its simply too much.
Why Chatbots Are More Important Than You Think
Stern Robots are better than friendly robots if we want humans to just get stuff done - we need our robots to be more proactive
Having your brainstorming sessions in the afternoon, will trigger more creative, out-of-the-box thinking.
Why do we ignore inventors who have submitted ideas into our innovation programs, simply because we dont like giving them the bad news that their idea may not be the right fit right now?
As we travel that road to the future faster and faster, we need to look up, focus our eyes way down the road, put on our high beams, and look as far forward as we can.
Innovation is that at its best, it’s a messy process, very experimental, and like a lot of experiments, there can be many, many failures before you see success
