Innovation Insights
by Stephen Shapiro
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
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
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