Innovation Insights
by Stephen Shapiro
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
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.
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