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Jay Leno Adds a Nano to His Garage
Jay's a famous gearhead who keeps a huge collection of cars and motorcycles in the warehouse sized garage in Los Angeles. And now he's added a new toy, a Nano. He'll be posting a review [...]
What if?
What if everyone on your team was required to spend one week each year shadowing, working with customers and experiencing their experiences? When the engineers at Tata Motors thought they'd identified a market niche in [...]
Be the Headlights
A great quote from Martin Luther King: "America must be the headlights and not the taillights." This is true for everyone and not just on an organizational level but on a personal level. Are you [...]
Great new review of Nanovation
PCB Design magazine wrote a very nice review of our book, on line here. "I think the most important part of the book is its message of making the world a better place. Tata drives [...]
Keynote video
I've been on the road so much in the last few weeks, it's been hard to keep up. Spent last week speech coaching, this week developing a proposal for global thought-leader conference. But Micheal McGar [...]
Gloryland – Kevin Gordon profiled in the New York Times
Jean came home one day talking about a friend of hers, a folk art dealer, who had made a CD and she wanted me to listen to it. I groaned inside but decided to be [...]
Finding the WAZE home.
Last night I tested a new iPhone app: a navigation system called WAZE. The nav system in my car is six years old, clunky and outdated. The Garmin units I buy ($300 bucks every couple [...]
Lawless Lands
Interesting article this week by Frank Jacobs, in the New York Times, about and area of Asia called Zomia. This is a vast "nationless" block of land stretching from Afghanistan in the west, through China [...]
The Brand Equation
Branding consultant Denise Lee Yohn has an article worth reading about what defines a brand. I still run into clients who think their "brand" is their logo, or their name, or their sign. I define [...]
I’ve been on the road…
...almost constantly for the last month. Keynote in Dallas, two trips to Nashville, meeting in New Jersey and family time in New York and Washington, DC. Rode the Acela to DC and almost, but not [...]
Innovate or Perish
Giving a keynote at the Interstate All-Battery Centers Convention today. Here's the text of the talk. Nanovation was a three year case study of disruptive innovation in the automotive industry. It’s the story of a [...]
Too Big To Know
Harvard's David Weinberger has a new book out -- Too Big To Know -- that tackles the question of the Internet's effect on our perceptions of knowledge and what it's doing to our minds. He [...]
If it’s January, you must have blown your New Years resolutions by now.
So if you really want to get some real traction on your person goals (you know, being a better person, living in the present, adding value to everyone whose lives you touch) I recommend spending [...]
100 Things to Watch in 2012
JWT, the global creative agency, issues it's annual list of 100 Things to Watch in the year ahead. My fave: Self-Powering Devices. "In 2011 engineers made strides toward harnessing kinetic energy to power our devices [...]
Looking Forward to the New Year
Remember that sometimes it takes the light of a burning bridge to show the way ahead.