Is your company maximizing its Return on Potential (ROPo)? Yes, I did make that term up, but I like it! I like it not only because I...

In my experience, the opportunity to be myself at work has coincided with when I've been happiest and most productive. It hasn't happened...

Photo by Charlotte Coneybeer on Unsplash Profit is a seemingly simple concept to understand. Profit = Sales - Expenses I’ve seen many...

Photo by Halacious on Unsplash While reading Wired on a flight to Boston, I came across an article about Reid Hoffman, the founder of...

Photo by peanut butter on Unsplash On a recent webinar that I was giving about Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), one of our participants...

Photo by Nik Shuliahin on Unsplash Hands down, there is no one that I enjoy talking to about disruption theory more than David Roberts....

This is a repost of an article I wrote back in 2012 after I was invited to spend a few days at the Singularity University Executive...

If there is one common thread that weaves together my experience in the field of innovation over the last decade, it is how frustrated...

Photo by Mathew Schwartz on Unsplash Last week at our Singularity University Executive Program, I was moderating a discussion with our...

Last month, Google and Luxotica announced a new partnership that will likely put Google Glass in every mall in America over the next few...

Image from Dall-E 2 One of the biggest challenges that good ideas have is making the jump out of the original inventor’s head into the...

Image generate by Dall-E 2 When a team has not created a solution they are satisfied with, blaming the time constraint they were forced...

Call it a hunch. An Instinct. Intuition. Following these kinds of “gut feelings” often lie behind the creation of great companies and...

When I hear a client tell me that they are in the midst of budget season, my heart instantly goes out to them. In my experience, budget...

Over the years, I’ve probably passed this video on to well over a hundred people. It’s a short, simple lesson in leadership and, just as...

This past Wednesday I had the opportunity to attend Start-up City: Miami sponsored by The Atlantic and The Atlantic Cities at Miami...

Over the last few years of working at Synecticsworld, I’ve noticed different themes that have appeared in my work.  Over the last couple...

A well functioning team can make work a joy.  A poorly functioning team can make work feel like drudgery.  The surprising thing for many...

Dear Steve: Back in the nineties, I felt I was at the center of the world as a consultant at Microsoft.  It was the early days of the Web...

The story of the rapid decline of JCPenney under Ron Johnson’s leadership is one of the most shocking business stories of recent years....