Innovation Insights
by Stephen Shapiro
Steve Jobs gave a brief but powerful speech at The Academy of Achievement in 1982. Here is a transcription of a portion of that speech – edited for space and emphasis. It’s about the creativity
I’m pleased to announce that my most recent book, PIVOTAL: Creating Stability in an Uncertain World, has been translated into traditional/complex Chinese. You can see the cover on this post or on an IT website
Two months ago, I set out to transform my 60,000-word Personality Poker book into a Reader’s Digest version—15,000 to 20,000 words with short chapters and detailed action steps. The content was already there. I just
I swore I was not going to write another book, at least not for a long time. But I couldn’t help myself. I have the first draft done for book #8: You’re Not Playing with
The other day, I posted about how children start life as red cards: creative, playful, connected. But as we age and learn to fit in and be successful, we start to collect black cards: logical,
Many years ago, I was friends with Tom Peters’ brand manager. I asked him for his definition of a brand. He gave me six simple words: “What your customers say it is.” It’s not your
Somewhere along the way, most of us stop being who we really are. After my Personality Poker session last night, I spoke with an attendee in his 60s, a semi-retired grandfather. He picked mostly red
Chuck Barris, the creator and host of The Gong Show, was one of my childhood heroes. I always wanted to be like him, a game show host with big, quirky ideas. Although my TV career
Have you lost your mind? That’s what people were saying when I posted about writing another book. I suspect people will lose their minds when I tell them they can’t buy the new book—now or
Call me crazy… I just re-released the Personality Poker book last week. And yesterday? I started working on my next book, planning to publish it this year. Have I lost my marbles? Maybe. The current
Most authors think they have a sales problem. They don’t. A colleague told me, “If more people bought my book, I’d get more speeches and coaching gigs.” My response: “You don’t have a sales problem.
When I founded my business in 2001, my title was “Innovation Speaker and Author.” Descriptive but boring. In 2010, I switched to “Innovation Evangelist” (and sometimes “Chief Innovation Evangelist”). It was more interesting, but some
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