I am writing this on Election Day 2008 in the United States. For me, Election Day has stirred up a lot of thinking about change. The sense of my professional futurist community is that this election offers the opportunity for sweeping change for US society, with global implications. For some it is a make-or-break moment. [...]
Earl Nightingale was a hugely successful self-help guru in the 1950s and 1960s. His recording The Strangest Secret sold over 1 million copies. That video, in 3 parts, may be found on YouTube.
Nightingale’s Strangest Secret is that “you become what you think about.” In the videos Nightingale lays out his notion of how most of [...]
The blog Innovation Weblog cited Gary Hamel’s book The Future of Management a few months ago, and I’ve meant to share it’s key points on impediments to innovation. Here they are along with my interpretations:
Creative apartheid–The long-held notion that creativity is a gift few have and that creative things should, and perhaps can only come [...]
A lot my after-hours life is centered on baseball this time of year, so allow me to look for a strong lesson for the business world from my favorite sport.
Baseball today is much the same game that was played over 100 years ago. It has deeply-rooted conventions and established ways of doing things. [link] And [...]
While at home the other morning, I walked by my 9-year-old’s microscope left on the kitchen counter. Normally, clutter and forgotten belongings plague me at home, but I had the thought, what kind of Dad would tell his curious son, “put your damn microscope away!”? Wouldn’t that be like Louis Armstrong’s Mom saying “stop playing [...]
It’s hard to open up a discussion about the future and not put most everything on the table for reconsideration. When the way is clear to do that, great, go for it! But so often, the charge to the group exploring the future is to move more incrementally: find new opportunities for growth, is a [...]
