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I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days.

Why smart executives consistently destroy breakthrough technology. The HP Palm WebOS autopsy reveals predictable thinking patterns behind billion-dollar failures.

I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days.

The Parenting Decision That Will Define Your Child's Future

From Silicon Valley to homeschool to grandparent: the framework that's guided our family through decades of technology adoption decisions.

The Parenting Decision That Will Define Your Child's Future

Why We Have Fewer Friends Than Our Grandparents (And It's Not What You Think)

Our drive for efficiency destroyed the "inefficient" moments where real relationships form—and we're paying the price in unprecedented isolation.

Why We Have Fewer Friends Than Our Grandparents (And It's Not What You Think)

Beyond Rebranding: How Successful Companies Reinvent Without Losing Their Soul

Nokia, Fujifilm, Nintendo, and LEGO - the real-world playbook of companies that fundamentally changed their business model while preserving their authentic DNA

Beyond Rebranding: How Successful Companies Reinvent Without Losing Their Soul

Technological Quicksand: Why More Technology Keeps Making Things Worse

Our addiction to technological fixes creates a quicksand cycle of deeper problems and endless digital dependencies.

Technological Quicksand: Why More Technology Keeps Making Things Worse

Innovation's Underground Economy

Your innovation process is the problem, not the solution. The more you formalize creativity, the faster it disappears into the shadows. The question isn't whether your organization has an innovation underground—it's whether you have the courage to see it, embrace it, and harness its power.

Innovation's Underground Economy

The Courage to Create Nothing

Standing still in a rushing world isn't weakness—it's strategic wisdom. True visionaries master the art of saying no when innovation becomes an end rather than a means.

The Courage to Create Nothing

Original Ideas Don't Exist

Innovation happens at the intersection of existing knowledge, challenging the notion that anyone truly creates rather than connects what came before.

Original Ideas Don't Exist

The Innovation Crisis: How We're Stifling Our Children's Creative Potential—And How to Set It Free

A 12-year-old entrepreneur highlights the gap between education and innovation. What happens when we value answers over inquiry, and how might we unlock our children's natural creative abilities?

The Innovation Crisis: How We're Stifling Our Children's Creative Potential—And How to Set It Free

The 36-Hour Lesson: When Reliability Made My Innovation Career

The flashiest ideas don't change the world—follow-through does. While we worship creative geniuses, reliable warriors who execute transform industries.

While we worship creative geniuses, reliable warriors who execute transform industries.