innovation decisions
How To Build a Decision System That Protects Your Thinking
The best decision-makers aren't smarter. They control when, where, and how they decide. Here's the system that makes that possible.
How to Beat Decision Fatigue
Your brain doesn't shut down when it's tired. It quietly lowers its standards and never tells you.
5 Questions That Spot Breakthroughs Before They Happen
In October 1903, The New York Times published an editorial mocking the idea of human flight, stating that a successful flying machine might take "from one to ten million years" to develop through the efforts of mathematicians and engineers. Eight weeks later, on December 17, 1903, the Wright
I Evaluated Over 30,000 Innovation Ideas at HP: Here's Why Most Failed
Your best innovation ideas aren't losing to bad ideas – they're losing to exhaustion. I know that sounds counterintuitive. After 30 years of making billion-dollar innovation decisions at HP and CableLabs, I thought I understood why good ideas failed. Market timing. Technical challenges. Resource constraints. Sometimes that
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.
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.
