This is exactly how you fly when you dream that you fly. — Yves Rossy I love my job. Since I was 10 years old, I have been fascinated by finding new paths for businesses to grow and thrive. I was always the one getting into discussions with people about their businesses and their products—even as […]
One of the biggest trends in how enterprise organizations operate is the peer-to-peer sharing of ideas across large numbers of employees. InformationWeek recently published some research about a long-term study that showed impressive gains in internal measures (projects on time) and customer-facing results (sales associates exceeding plan). Tools such as Salesforce.com and its formation of […]
Human beings have long been fascinated by time. It’s very hard to see and taste; yet its effects are indisputable. Its progress is unstoppable and forward momentum irreversible. Man is working on changing his perspective both in the long term (see this link for efforts to build a clock that will run for the […]
Our family loves water parks, and one of our favorites is in the Wisconsin Dells at a place called Noah’s Ark. They have a 10-story high waterslide there called The Point Of No Return, and after you’ve ridden it a time or two, you know exactly why. The ride starts with a 40-meter vertical drop, […]
Please take a minute to watch this amazing video. It’s a very moving story about how a poor community of 2,500 people living on a landfill in Paraguay spotted an opportunity to create instruments from trash. Aside from being an incredibly inspiring story, there are some powerful lessons here about innovation and the ability to […]
There has been an across the board shift since the 2008 financial crisis that has made the job of business development in large organizations much different than it was in the early 2000’s. Some of the biggest changes include an increased pressure to do more with less resources, an increased need for collaboration and more […]
I recently spoke to a group of entrepreneurs in Minneapolis, where I shared strategy, tips and techniques for successfully approaching large organizations with their inventions and cutting-edge breakthroughs. The group was made up of inventors, investors, serial entrepreneurs, corporate business developers and others who support the incubation of innovation. As we were gathering, I introduced myself […]
The recent news of the Microsoft offer to acquire Nokia’s handset business has brought many layers of responses regarding technology, market niche and global footprint. Very few commentators have hit on what I see as the real issue, however: culture clash. With the button-down, northern European hardware culture of the Finns in stark contrast to the software-centric […]
I had the good fortune to travel through Cedarville, Michigan this summer and take a tour of the Great Lakes Boat Building School, the only wooden boat building school in the Midwest. Bud McIntire, their director of development, took us on a tour of their operation to give us a behind-the-scenes look at the fascinating […]
I’m a fan of the Apollo 13 movie on many levels, but today I’d like to highlight the scene where the team must recommend a change to the CO2 filter. Suddenly faced with the realization that the cabin filters in their disabled craft are not operating, the crew has a very short amount of time […]
