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An Exercise: Clarify Your Value By Thinking of a Table

August 24, 2025
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I’m going to give you an exercise today. This is one I shared with a friend who is a start-up advisor. He was struggling to decide on the area of start-up management he wanted to work on. I use this exercise regularly in my workshops and intensives. It goes like this: Think of a table. […]

10 Commandments of “Innovation Led Growth”

Hey! I’ve been doing some noodling on an idea: “The lost art of strategy”. I’ll dig into that over the next few months. But, this week, I began to hone in on the idea that strategy is about creating “innovation-led growth.” Why does this matter? To frame my thinking, I’ve put together 10 Commandments of […]

A Better Way to Think About Innovation

Hey! I was doodling this week, waiting for a store to open in the mall, and I came up with a drawing for what innovation really looks like: A circle. That’s innovation. Let’s take a look at this idea: First, insights. Insights are the understanding of the cause and effect of a situation. I posted […]

September 12, 2021
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Hey- Lately, I’ve been keeping a book on my desk called Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson. Here’s his TED Talk on the idea of ideas and innovation: As we head into the fall and winter, still wrestling with the pandemic, it seems important to think about innovation and ideas and come up with some […]

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An Exercise: Clarify Your Value By Thinking of a Table

10 Commandments of “Innovation Led Growth”

A Better Way to Think About Innovation

How I Innovate Ideas!

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