Posts by Sarah Miller Caldicott
The Bleeding Edge of Innovation
The OI executives I spoke with described themselves as operating at the bleeding edge of innovation. In their words, by participating in Open Innovation, they are daily risking career- ending failures.
Read MoreWhat is a Midnight Lunch? Closing the Collaboration Gap
I believe there’s a crucial gap in our approach to innovation: we forget that collaboration is a vital part of the innovation process. In fact, I would go even farther and say we’re lacking a baseline sense of what collaboration really is. This gap is especially dangerous given the expanding connection between human beings and virtual technologies…globally.
Read MoreInnovation 101 – The New Role of Context
The New Innovation 101 – Forget Industry Boundaries, Develop Customer Context
Read MoreEdison's Approach to Goals
The State of the Union address often serves as my first mile marker for reviewing the goals I set for the coming year. It’s right about now that the shiny New Year’s resolutions we made on January 1st don’t look so compelling. At best, many of us have lost a big dose of the motivation we felt for our goals in the first place. At worst, our resolutions have evaporated into thin air.
Read MoreSteve Jobs and Thomas Edison
“Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.†The most frequently cited words ever spoken by Thomas Edison – for better or for worse – stand as a benchmark for the relationship between inspiration and human effort. But most people need more than 1% inspiration to do anything. In his genius, Edison only needed 1% inspiration…and our mourned wunderkind Steve Jobs as well. But the rest of us need much more than 1% to swing us into action.
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