Memo To Staff: Take More Risks (WSJ March 20)

The WSJ ran a great piece by Leslie Kwoh called Memo To Staff: Take More Risks highlighting the move by some CEOs to encourage staff to innovate, try things and to stop just surviving. Seth Godin’s latest book The Icarus Deception shouted a similar theme – we’re all...
Innovation – Some Guiding Principles

Innovation – Some Guiding Principles

David Kelley of IDEA “Innovators aren’t exceptional as much as they are confident.” says David Kelley, founder of design firm IDEO. (WSJ) David Kelley and George Kembel founded the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stamford a nondegree d.school...
How Do You Innovate?

How Do You Innovate?

“Innovation, as far as we’re concerned, is one of the key drivers of everything that goes on in business,” said Sir Andrew Likierman, the dean of London Business School. The school opened its Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship this year. Innovation drives...