Ever notice that some organizations seem to be far more consistent at delivering new innovation than most? I have. Ever wonder why this is… what they do differently? I certainly have. Indeed, like so many others before me, I’ve spent my entire adult life working in and around organizations that…

As I visit and observe what I call the “existential festivals” — events like Burning Man, SXSW, TED, Sundance, Bonnaroo, and ArtPrize, for example — I ask myself, “What are people really trying to accomplish here — besides just having fun?” The answer I’ve come away with — after quite…

If you’re like me and a lot of other entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs around the world, then you’ve likely romanticized — at least at some point in time — about what it must have been like in great companies like Apple, HP, Google, and Cisco when they were just getting their…

Unless your business strategy is to be a fast-follower (an increasingly risky and dangerous strategy), you invariably have markets or market segments in which your objective is to be the Market Leader. As Jack Welch so skillfully demonstrated while he led GE, Market Leadership is the one real strategy that…

There are a lot of businesses in the world — some estimate 500 million or more. They all provide some manner of product or service that makes our world work the way it does today. Nearly every one of these — based on our encounters with all shapes, sizes, and…