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A Brief History of Innovation … and Its Next Evolution
This week I ran three days of workshops for PVH (Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, etc.) and UTC (the huge tech firm that

The Beauty of Being Alone
If my family ever reads this blog, please know that I love you dearly and I carefully memorize each cherished moment I

Stop Doing What You Know to Do
This is chaos! Frozen snow is shuffling people off sidewalks and into this warm Starbucks on the “high street” of my quaint

Be a Business Artist
The Virgin America lounge at LAX, clinks of drinks, CNN humming in the background, and a distant rumble of planes landing and

A Universal Law: Repeat What You Want And You Will Get It
I’m on hour 20 of 24 in my journey home from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. While there, I completed the training of five

The Magical Space Between Work and Play
Most cringe at the thought of “wasting” 20 hours on a plane. But to me this has been a gift – I

A Quick Exercise to Create Clarity and Focus
Was that Paris? I recall a glimpse of the Eiffel Tower, one meal, and a 10-minute walk across the Seine, but the

5 Reasons to Hire Intrapreneurs
At a breakfast last week, I had the opportunity to speak with Iris Nafshi, Campbell Soup’s head of learning and development and

Innovating Your Life
After delivering a keynote at United Technologies yesterday, I have a welcome moment of rest – 45 minutes in a coffee shop

Knowing Nothing is Hiding Under the Bed
I rushed to get my filet mignon order in three minutes before the kitchen closed. To me, a trip to Chicago is incomplete without

The Organization of Tomorrow will be…
The Organization of Tomorrow will be … Ten hours into a 16-hour flight. In two days, I’ll be delivering a workshop in

The Science Behind Intention
These magical days are slipping by so quickly. I’ve been in the heart of coffee country in Pereira, Colombia, for two weeks.

Five Keys to Unlocking Entrepreneurial Intensity
Home at 1am, after a six-hour journey that should have been three. The extra hours of airport Wi-Fi on the way

To Believe or Not To Believe
My eyes are still blurred from three days on the road and a “red eye” too short to sleep through, and

Innovation is Not Effortless
How Hard Should You Push? I’m on a flight home from Denver, my mind twirling over a contradiction. A conversation I had

Why We Must Re-Reward Ideas
Back from one of my most action-packed weeks ever – five days, five cities, four speaking gigs, then a weekend filled with

Give Them Your Sizzle
I’ve been working on my keynote speaking for about 15 years. I’m not a master (yet), but that’s not for lack of

Narratives and Possibility :: Change the Life in Which You’re Living
Narratives and Possibility :: Change the Life in Which You’re Living Last night I went to bed feeling down, despondent, discouraged. This