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The 10-Minute Airport Conversation That Generated HP Billions

How a casual exchange at San Jose Airport became HP's gaming empire—and why most executives miss these moments entirely

The 10-Minute Airport Conversation That Generated HP Billions

Can an Innovation Be Impossible?

Five questions reveal which 'impossible' ideas become billion-dollar breakthroughs—while experts dismiss them as fantasy.

Can an Innovation Be Impossible?

The Innovation Fatigue Crisis: Why Your Best Ideas Are Getting Ignored

Your best innovation ideas aren't losing to bad ideas – they're losing to exhaustion. Intelligence doesn't predict innovation success. Attention allocation does.

The Innovation Fatigue Crisis: Why Your Best Ideas Are Getting Ignored

You Get to Choose: Which Innovation Decision Topic Should I Tackle First?

Behind closed doors, smart executives wrestle with decisions that textbooks don't cover. Here's what keeps them awake.

You Get to Choose: Which Innovation Decision Topic Should I Tackle First?

The Thinking Hack That Built Billion-Dollar Companies

While competitors think harder, start thinking laterally—the systematic method for finding breakthrough innovations hiding in plain sight.

The Thinking Hack That Built Billion-Dollar Companies

The 50-Year Overnight Success: What Dr Bose Taught Me About Innovation Patience

How deliberately slowing down in a world obsessed with speed transformed my approach to breakthrough innovation decisions

The 50-Year Overnight Success: What Dr Bose Taught Me About Innovation Patience

How HP and Fossil Handed Apple the Smartwatch Market

The inside story of vision without execution: why being right about the future means nothing without the courage to act on breakthrough insights

How HP and Fossil Handed Apple the Smartwatch Market

The $200M Gut Check That Taught Me Intuition Isn't Magic

What looks like instinct is actually practical thinking skills in disguise. Here is the three-step framework that makes it reliable.

The $200M Gut Check That Taught Me Intuition Isn't Magic

The Secret of Top Innovation Leaders: They Think Like Philosophers

The Philosophy of Innovation Journal: 210 questions for innovation leaders who want breakthrough thinking, not just methods. Early access available.

The Secret of Top Innovation Leaders: They Think Like Philosophers

The Day I Wrote Off Twitter (Before It Was Twitter)

How watching a "dead" company pivot taught me everything about dismissing breakthrough ideas

The Day I Wrote Off Twitter (Before It Was Twitter)