Innovation Insights
by Stephen Shapiro
With the book launch one month away, it was exciting to receive the first proofs of the paperback version. It looks significantly more impressive in its physical form!
You can’t be great at everything. If you try, you’ll be great at nothing. You want to “play to your strong suit.” These are the traits that give you energy and reflect your superpower. And
I recently delivered a session for members of the Global Innovation Management Institute. After I was done, the Institute pulled together a valuable five-page resource based on my presentation. They did a fantastic job of
On April 21, 2026, my 8th book, You’re Not Playing with a Full Deck, will be published. After months of effort and hundreds of iterations of the cover, I am thrilled to share the final
Right now I am working on the cover design for my next book. The designer gave me five different concepts to choose from. Immediately, my gut reacted. One cover stood out to me as clearly
It’s official. April 21, 2026 marks the launch of my 8th book: You’re Not Playing with a Full Deck: Why the People Who Drive You Crazy Also Drive Breakthrough Results I am looking for people
Most of us, in fact nearly all of us, are not playing with a full deck. What do I mean by that? No one succeeds on their own. We all need the perspectives of others.
Twenty years ago, I wrote Goal-Free Living with a controversial premise: our personal lives are better without goal obsession. So can this work in business? Absolutely. I’ve seen it firsthand: → Clients selling more after
Wishing you a 2026 where everyone is playing with a full deck. Happy New Year!
It’s that time of year when we set resolutions for 2026. But maybe one resolution should be to stop making resolutions! Twenty years ago, Wiley published my Goal-Free Living book. The premise is that goals
Most teams don’t struggle because they lack talent. They struggle because they surround themselves with people who think the same way. This was my message to 800 leaders at the SHRM Linkage Institute, where we
When do you trust others, and when do you trust your gut? In 2011, Portfolio Penguin bought the rights to two of my books. The working title of one of them was The Little Book
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