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How To Build Innovation Teams (My Playbook From HP and CableLabs)
How to build innovation teams, from the playbook I used at HP and CableLabs: culture before hiring, the right roles, the Idea Fund, and the right metrics
How to Recognize Failure Patterns: How HP Quit and Apple Won
A partner named exactly how HP would lose, four years early. HP quit. Apple didn't. Here are the four failure patterns behind both calls.
HP Needs to Stop Before It Can Grow
A response to Mark Vena's "HP Needs More Than a New CEO," and my second letter to HP's board.
The Customers Who Walked Away
Forty-two killer questions that survived years of testing, and the three places to aim them.
Retirement 3.0
My third retirement is different. On Jan 1, 2027 I retire as CableLabs CEO and hand the reins to Mark Bridges. Why now, and what's next?
Ideas Aren’t Getting Harder to Find. They’re Getting Harder to Approve
Every research-driven industry looks like it’s running out of ideas. It isn’t. It’s turning them down.
What I Saw McKinsey Get Wrong at HP And Couldn’t Stop
Mindjacking doesn’t always come from outside. Sometimes you watch it happen in real time and still can’t stop it.
R&D Spending Is the Most Misleading Number in Business
The government collects the real R&D split from every public company. It's locked away by federal law. Here's how to estimate it anyway.
The Innovation Metric Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard Used
HP used this R&D benchmark for decades and still managed to forget it. Most companies never found it.
The R&D Metric Mark Hurd and HP Got Wrong
How one flawed benchmark drove years of R&D decisions and quietly drained HP's innovation pipeline.