Why do smart leaders consistently make terrible choices about breakthrough ideas?
After 30 years making high-stakes innovation decisions—from co-founding and taking a company public to serving as HP's CTO and now leading CableLabs as CEO—I've decoded the decision-making patterns that separate breakthrough choices from costly mistakes.
Now I share what I've learned through Studio Notes (weekly essays) and Studio Sessions (video and audio)—real frameworks for innovation decision-making that actually work under uncertainty.
I believe every leader can make better innovation decisions. You just need frameworks that account for how strategic choices actually get made, not how they should get made.
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