Studio Notes
Weekly essays on the decisions behind innovation—the patterns that repeat, the mistakes that are predictable, and what actually works.
Can an Innovation Be Impossible?
Five questions reveal which 'impossible' ideas become billion-dollar breakthroughs—while experts dismiss them as fantasy.
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.
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 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 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
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
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 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 Day I Wrote Off Twitter (Before It Was Twitter)
How watching a "dead" company pivot taught me everything about dismissing breakthrough ideas
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.
