Great article by Gianfranco Zaccai on why focus groups don't deliver great product innovations. "Focus groups aren’t useless. They can be insightful for fine-tuning something for the short term. But true innovation is about more than just incremental improvement, it’s about revolutionizing a product or a service; in fact, it [...]

What's coming in the future that could make your business--even your entire industry--obsolete? How do you respond? Can you see it coming? Can you design a new organization to take over from inside your current one when the current one becomes unworkable. Shelley Evenson says you can. In a short [...]

My next book, due in Spring 2013, presents many of the leadership lessons of Nanovation in the form of a comic novel. Titled Affluenza, it's the story of a guy who casually tells a joke at a cocktail party, claiming his dream job is to be a failed CEO. ("That's [...]