This month Natalie Turner, founder and CEO of entheo, our “sister company” located in the U.K. was interviewed in Training Journal, one of the U.K.’s leading learning and development publications. entheo specializes in one of our favorite areas, innovation and …

Innovation, entheo, and Natalie Turner Read more »

Last week, a friend of mine handed me an article from the current issue of Psychology Today Magazine; this is an article that I wish would be in all the major business journals. The article, entitled, “Paid to Smile,” is …

Innovation at Zappos.com: It’s the Culture Read more »

Once upon a time, long, long ago, almost all companies and businesses aimed to provide value. That is, that while their first objective was to make a profit, many—if not most—of them also sought to provide goods and services that …

Short-Term Profit Versus Long-Term Value Read more »

On one of the innovation-related blogs I read, I found a scathing article entitled, “Why Ford deserves to fail.” The article is almost a rant, indicting Ford Motors—and by extension General Motors and Chrysler—in light of their recent plea to …

The Cost of Not Innovating Read more »

In my previous posting, I noted several social innovations, not the least of which was the Aquaduct, a pedal driven tricycle/water filtration device designed by IDEO. Since the folks at IDEO are known for innovative design—and are indeed called upon …

The Aquaduct and the Innovation Process Read more »