Innovation Insights
by Stephen Shapiro
Back in 1985, I worked for Unisys (then Burroughs) as part of an engineering co-op program while in college. This gave me hands-on experience working in the production control department for this large computer manufacturer.
In today’s USA Today, an article discussed “players who are slumping in pursuit of milestones.” The examples they give are: Barry Bonds, who is eight home runs shy of Hank Aaron’s record of 755, has
Doug Busch, former Chief Information Officer at Intel once told me, “The best things I have ever done in my career came shortly after I decided that the best thing that could happen to me
I put together a simple test that takes less than 2 minutes to complete. It tests your ability to perform a seemingly straightforward activity. Want to give it a try? Click here to launch the
Most readers (hopefully) know that there is a huge difference between being goal-less and being goal-free. Goal-less implies a complete lack of direction, motivation, and action. Goal-free means having a sense of direction, not a
No guy wants a beer belly. Right? Most would rather have a “six-pack.” Of course. But what if you could have a six-pack AND a beer belly at the same time? Well, now you can.
I learned an interesting lesson many years back: Charging too LITTLE for your goods or services can price you out of a sale. Let me explain. I was with the management consulting firm Accenture for
I’ll play it first and tell you what it is afterwards. – Miles Davis, jazz trumpeter extraordinaire
Here’s another tip from my Little Book of BIG Innovation Ideas (this book was replaced by Best Practices are Stupid)… Because a few individuals at the top cannot possibly plan all of a company’s activities,
In a previous blog entry, I commented on Michael Wiederman’s article in Scientific American Mind entitled, “Why It’s So Hard to Be Happy.” Dr. Wiederman is a Professor of Psychology at Columbia College and a
In the early 1900s, Robert Yerkes and J. D. Dodson developed the aptly named Yerkes-Dodson Law. The premise is that performance increases relative to motivation (they call it “arousal”) only to a point, after which
What big companies do instead of implementing features is plan them. At Viaweb we sometimes ran into trouble on this account. Investors and analysts would ask us what we had planned for the future. The
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