Innovation Insights
by Stephen Shapiro
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 that I really like. He
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 Blog Talk Radio button which
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) and it just coincidentally fell
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 to buy a software consortium
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 all cancer researchers.” This feels
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 countries. The last time I
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, most of them suck.” Although
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 and the website. Click here
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 my theme would be “Play
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 provider – landline and/or mobile.
We just completed the Innovation Personality Poker instruction manual. It is 85 pages of solid content. Below you will find the Table of Contents. There is a “Quick Start Guide” [chapter 1] that can have you up and running in
We often make decisions based on emotion rather than logic. Especially in times of crisis (like our current financial situation), we choose options that address our “pains.” Most people are feeling a pain at the pump with gas prices topping
Just in case you don’t already have enough to read…. Here are two lists with hundreds of great blogs you should consider reading. My website has been selected for both, so I am slighly biased… HR World’s The Top 100
We have had so many requests for our Personality Poker that we decided to launch it earlier than planned. Not everything is 100% ready, so we are offering bonus items to those who buy now. When you order, you get
NOTE: This article was written a decade ago. The approach still works just fine, however there are newer and better tools that might be available for layout, transcription, or editing. I tried to note these in a few sections. I
I just received a newsletter that had 10 wacky patents. Here’s my favorite: Apparatus for Facilitating the Birth of a Child by Centrifugal Force: With this invention, the mother-to-be is strapped down to a table that is then is spun
I am in Copenhagen this week doing work with a client. Therefore, Alexander Kjerulf, I, and some others decided to put on a public seminar on personal innovation. I will be doing my “Innovation Personality Poker.” The event is this
The other day I attended an event at Harvard about “Leadership and the Next President.” There were some big names in the audience and on stage. Today I am going to blog about one of the panel discussions which focused
For those of you who were following he previous blog entries and are curious, here is the winning logo design. We are hoping to launch the new website next week.
On Wednesday I posted an open innovation dilemma. In summary, as I created my short-list of logos developed using an open innovation approach, certain designers decided to “build on” (plagiarize?) the concepts I liked. Although this resulted in an improved
As mentioned in my previous post, I decided to use open innovation for the development of a logo. OK, it is quite small scale, but I wanted to see the results. Here are two quick interesting observations. Signal to Noise
In the past I have written several blog entries about the power of Open Innovation. The most robust open innovation website out there is InnoCentive. Yesterday I decided to try some open innovation for my own business – on a
Although I have written about this many times before on this blog, we have created a formal article on “The Performance Paradox.” This is part of an eBook being published by 21 professional speakers. You can find this, and a
Coming June 1, 2008 I just heard from the lawyers this morning, and they gave me the green light to tell everyone about our newest product – “Personality Poker (TM).” We applied for both a trademark (hence the TM used
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