Dig Deeper.
Articles, book reviews and thoughts on executive coaching, communications and the world of business.
Radical Openness
Jason Silva is amazing and he has the right idea. Things are moving too fast today to hold onto ideas. Get them out there and let them breed! This is a very exciting video. Call [...]
Ratan Tata On Not Being Able to Build the Culture He Envisioned
Ratan Tata was a huge presence in our book, Nanovation. As he prepares to step down from his role as the Chairman at the end of this year, he's been sharing some thoughts with the [...]
A Mental Health Moment
This hamster is really surprised to see you here. You know, given everything you said you had to get done today. More at Buzzfeed.
The Forgotten American Nano Moment
The Henry J was the little American car that, well, couldn’t. Conceived as post-war Model T, the Henry J was supposed to be a model of efficiency and low cost manufacturing. In a way, it [...]
Innovation in high speed travel.
Here's a great article from the BBC on proposals for high-speed travel using mag-lev capsules traveling in vacuum tubes across the country or beneath the ocean -- at speeds up to 2,500 miles per hour. [...]
Bill Murray on Improvisation
We can learn a lot about innovation from great comics, particularly those who come from the discipline of improvisation. There's a great interview with Bill Murray in this month's Esquire. Money quote: You gotta commit. [...]
Jay Leno Loves His Nano
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGEwG62Q1UQ Great video from Jay Leno, which includes a trip to the Nano factory in Ahmedabad, interviews with Nikhail Jadhav whom we profiled in our book and driving on the streets of India. In the [...]
Where Good Ideas Come From
Great meditation on where ideas come from, from Steven Johnson, based on his most excellent book of the same title. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU
Innovation in Love
This has nothing to do with business and everything to do with innovation: the world's first lip-dub proposal. Most "innovative" ideas for proposals are dumb beyond belief. I once knew an art director whose bright [...]
Jay Leno and Ford’s Alan Mulally
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4aatqMxFnE Has anybody noticed how well the U.S. car industry is doing lately? It’s hard to remember all those car industry guys going before Congress back in 2008, begging for cash to keep their doors [...]
Driving Your iPad
Just last week, I was describing to a group of friends my idea of a car dashboard where you slide your iPad in and it integrates with your car's software to become your navigation, information [...]
A Nano is Born
You may have a picture of what a car factory in India looks like. So you may be surprised to see the amazing enterprise in Gujurat that can pop out as many as 250,000 Nanos [...]
Here’s to the crazy ones.
Everyone thought Ratan Tata was crazy when he set out to build a car for the price of a scooter. Same with Richard Branson or Jeff Bezos spending money on space travel. But, to paraphrase [...]
Life as we know it: the Ricoh Tamago
Ricoh -- known as a copier company, but way more than that -- has an iPad app called Tamago that lets you lead a presentation on your iPad while your colleagues follow on theirs. Right [...]
What is purpose, for a brand?
I was thinking about this today when I saw a blog post from a very cool marketing company, Zeus Jones. As I read what they were saying about helping clients find their core purpose, something [...]