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How to Improve Your Inversion Thinking Skills

Most innovation tools teach you how to win. Inversion thinking teaches you how to lose on purpose, so you catch the failure while you can still change course.

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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.

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The Daily Journaling Habit That Helped Me Find My Authentic Innovation Self

For the first time, I'm sharing the deeply personal practice that transformed me from a "rinse and repeat" performer into an authentic innovator—and why this matters more now than ever.

The Daily Journaling Habit That Helped Me Find My Authentic Innovation Self

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.