If you’re doing something truly new and different, don’t immediately seek out the largest addressable market. Look for a “hair on fire” use case, customers…
“Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas,” said the computing pioneer Howard Aiken. “If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram…
We’re often faced with complex, seemingly insurmountable problems. One surprising effective technique to get at root causes and start actually solving them is called…
At Google’s X division, the company’s “moonshot factory,” the mantra is “#MonkeyFirst.” The idea is that if you want to get a monkey to recite…
All too often, we only pay attention to innovations when they hit the market and forget about everything it took to get them there. Innovation…
We like to think that success always breeds more success, but often it breeds failure. When we hit on a model that works, we…
We’re entering a new era of innovation! In the years to come the pendulum will to swing from iterating and adapting to new applications…
Episode 6: Start with the “Why Not?” Simon Sinek says that we should “Start with the why,” but often we can go further by starting…
One of the mantas of the digital age has been, “You need to adapt to survive.” But the truth is that once you find…
Many believe you have to be a jerk to be a great innovator, but in my research I found just the opposite. Sharing ideas and…
The toughest part of any job is to start, but the sooner you get your work out in the open, the faster the flaws can…
To overcome disruption for the long term, simply moving faster is NOT enough. You need to solve fundamental problems and that takes a long, sustained…
If you’d like to learn more, check out my blog post on Digital Tonto, Don’t Look For a Great Idea, Find A Good Problem