Innovation Insights
by Stephen Shapiro

While here Malaysia, my BlackBerry was stolen. It reminded me of something I wrote in my book Goal-Free Living: Every day we are presented with numerous opportunities, but they often pass us by without our

Today I leave for Asia and will be gone for 3 weeks. Before I go, I want to throw out an idea I have been playing with. It’s rough, and I will write more about

I have played Innovation Personality Poker with groups from 8 to 800 in size. David Zinger, a fantastic blogger (who incidentally wrote a brief review of Personality Poker today), provided me with a solitaire version

The other day I was interviewed by Lorraine Cohen on her show “Powerfull Living” on Blog Talk Radio. We discussed Goal-Free Living and innovation. You can listen to the hour long interview by clicking the

Last night, I held a launch party for my Personality Poker at the home of Robert and Joan Parker. OK, actually the party was planned a while back (I bought it at a charity auction)

Yesterday I mentioned that GlaxoSmithKline is giving away a small fortune’s worth of cancer research. The idea is to speed up the process. Yesterday, Nokia announced that it will spend nearly a half billion dollars

I discussed Open Innovation many times in this blog. The other day, GlaxoSmithKline announced that they are collaborating with the National Cancer Institute to make a “large body of cancer cell genomic data available to

I am leaving for Asia July 3 and will be there until July 21. I am presenting in Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok and Singapore. This is a rare opportunity to see me in action in these

Today’s quote is from the great comedian, George Carlin, who passed away Sunday. Although this quote is less raunchy than most, it’s still not quite “G” rated… “I got a lot of ideas. Trouble is,

I did not know this, but excerpts from my blogs have been appearing regularly in a newsletter containing inspirational quotes. Members of the Gaia Community select their favorite tidbits and then distribute them via email

Regular readers of this blog know that I set New Year’s themes, not resolutions. At the beginning of the year, after the incredible regular season performance by the New England Patriots (American football), I decided

I just discovered a new phone service called Tabrio. It claims to provide Skype-like calling rates (ad-supported), without the need for any special headsets or hardware. In fact, this service runs through your existing phone

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