Great Ideas are NOT Accidental!
by Yoram Solomon In 2010, I had an idea for a new product for the company I worked for. I had put together a business...
Innovation Intelligence – 4 Thinking Tools for Innovators
by Pete Foley This continues on from an Innovation Excellence blog I wrote last month about how personality types can influence innovation capability. https://www.innovationexcellence.com/blog/2019/10/03/5-psychological-traits-of-highly-innovative-organizations/ While...
Fairness, Trust, and Innovation Culture
by Yoram Solomon As noted in previous articles (You don’t have an Innovation Problem, You Have a Trust Problem! Part 1, Part 2, Part 3),...
Drive Out Fear for innovation to Flow
by Mike Shipulski The primary impediment to innovation is fear, and the prime directive of any innovation system should be to drive out fear. A...
The Wrong Diagnosis means the Wrong Remedy
by Paul Sloane We tend to revere our clinicians as towering experts in their fields. So how often do you think doctors misdiagnose? How often...
Abandon the Myth That Everything Happens For a Reason and Try This Instead
by Tom Koulopoulos Failure and loss are inevitable, but trying to rationalize them can be the last thing you need to do. Yes, I know,...
5 Psychological Traits of Highly Innovative Organizations
by Pete Foley When creating an innovation team, we often put a lot of thought and effort into bringing the right functional expertise together. Making sure...
How Behavioral Economics is Killing Innovation
by Yoram Solomon When my daughter Maya was in middle school, she decided to repeat a behavioral economics experiment featured in Dan Ariely’s book Predictably Irrational for...
We Overvalue Knowledge and Undervalue Ignorance
by Paul Sloane We value knowledge and certainty, and disdain ignorance and doubt. Ignorant is an adjective of derision. Perhaps we over-value knowledge and underestimate...
Cognitive Bias is an Innovation Killer
by Steve Graham I recently wrote about Cognitive Diversity, and today I reflect on Cognitive Bias, the other side of the same coin. I think...