My New Mantra

Chris Martin created this cool graphic that is the mantra for my new book.  As you can see, it includes the url for our soon to be launched website.

Slideshow of 10 Tips from New Book

Dennis McCafferty from Baseline Magazine, created a cool slideshow that features ten of the tips from my upcoming book. Although the names of the tips were changed (maybe to protect the innocent), you will get a good sense of the content.  Click the image on the right to go to their website.

One Week Until My New Book is Available

In one week (September 29th), my new book will be available in book stores, online, and on the Kindle. It is published by Penguin’s Portfolio imprint.  For those of you who are new to this blog, here’s a description… Best Practices Are Stupid: 40 Ways to Out-Innovate the Competition Well-intentioned leaders, in their attempts to […]

Freedom Can Limit Innovation

Over the past couple of weeks, I have had the identical conversation with several different clients. Apparently, there is an existing belief that if you want to instill a mindset of creativity, you need to have less “structure.” To some degree that is true. But unfortunately, most companies, when undergoing this kind of change, swing […]

Best Practices Are Stupid on BNET's The Live One

Today I was interviewed on BNET’s The Live One. Check out this 20 minute video for some perspectives from my new book, “Best Practices Are Stupid.” This book will be available on September 29, 2011.

My Next Book

I am happy to announce that my next book will be published by Portfolio Penguin on September 29, 2011. The title? Best Practices Are Stupid: 40 Ways to Out-Innovate the Competition. This book contains 40 bite-sized tips and tricks for creating a culture of innovation. Most are quite counterintuitive or irreverent.  For example: Asking for […]