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From the Stage: The Recycled Recession Headlines
Every downturn, I play a little game with my audience. Speaking to dental professionals, I read out a series of grim economic headlines: banks facing meltdown, a mortgage crisis…
From the Stage: Iterative Design
Speaking at the International Finance Corporation, I described how 3D printing and rapid prototyping change the very nature of design: "The future of manufacturing is found in…
From the Stage: The Jobs of 2036
At the IIA/ISACA GRC Conference in August 2026, I did something a little unusual. I invented a conference agenda for 2036 — complete with fictional sessions and speakers — and…
From the Stage: Cardboard People and Plasma People
At a conference of the people who design in-store displays, I went to the cocktail party the night before. On one side of the room, a group was deep in conversation about trends…
From the Stage: Who Owns the Future of Innovation?
Speaking to the banking technology community at Finastra, I described a period in which so many trends were arriving at once that industries were rewriting their own timelines for…
From the Stage: The Most Innovative Industries Aren't the Usual Suspects
Speaking to Genentech, I was asked where I see the most innovation. My answer surprised people. Not just Silicon Valley, but farming and trucking. In precision agriculture, a…
From the Stage: Legacy Doesn't Matter
Opening the EY National Tax Conference in Montreal, I described what I hear in boardrooms everywhere, from Disney to ESPN: "It is so overwhelming that increasingly legacy doesn't…
From the Stage: Forget the MBA. Get a Master's in Business Imagination
Speaking to a dental audience for Cain Watters & Associates, I pushed back on the idea that you can be "motivated" into creativity: "I find motivational speakers kind of a weird…
From the Stage: The Era of Acceleration
At the World Government Summit in Dubai, I opened with the most important thing to understand about the future: "it's probably going to happen faster than we think. Because we…
From the Stage: There Are No Barriers to Change
This was one of my opening moments, set to music, and it captures what I believe about innovative organizations: "There are no barriers to change. There's only our resistance to…
From the Stage: The Dive-In Movie
One summer, with the kids running out of things to do, I set up an LCD projector and surround sound by the pool and we held a dive-in movie for the neighbourhood. I blogged about…
From the Stage: Upside-Down Innovation
When I spent time with Disney, they described how their old innovation model worked for a new movie: design the toys, plan the merchandising, then do the branding. Then they…
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