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Where's the growth? 2011 and beyond......!
One of the highlights of 2010 had to be the day that I was the opening speaker for the 94th Annual General Meeting of the PGA - Professional Golfers Association of America. It was…
How to battle organizational sclerosis!
A few years ago, when I was the closing speaker for the Swiss Innovation Forum in Zurich, I made the observation that many "organizations fail because they have failure ingrained…
How small is your world? Why thinking BIG could save you in the 21st century economy!
We are in the era of big thinking, yet a lot of people have a small outlook. Consider what leading edge innovation organizations are doing today; they're prepared to: make big…
What the heck are you waiting for?
When you are on stage in front of several hundred people, you've got to be prepared to be interactive and open to insight. That's why I regularly use a text message polling tool…
"You can't be a futurist and a pessimist!"
Yesterday I spoke to several thousand people as the closing keynote speaker for the 2010 Fresh Summit for the Produce Marketing Association in Orlando. I focused on several…
Product lifecycle 2.0 and the era of instant obsolescence
This graph represents the model of product life cycles as taught in business schools for the last, oh, I don't know, 100 years? Companies would innovate, and introduce a new…
Utah League of Cities & Towns, Salt Lake City : Driving the Future of Economic Development
What do you get when you bring 700 mayors and elected officials for small, medium and large sized towns from the State of Utah into a room for a talk about the future? My main…
The 10 Most Important Innovation-Themed Rock Documentaries of All Time!
With all the keynotes I do, I spend a huge amount of time on airplanes -- and often end up going through a lot of video. As of late, I've seen a number of rock documentaries, and…
"We shop faster" - the new fast world of retail, food and consumer products
Here's a summary of my observations from a keynote I did in New York City for retailers, agencies, marketing organizations, food and CPG companies, on some of the trends that are…
Video : What do innovative organizations do?
What do innovative organizations do? They re-orient themselves for an economy in which their ability to react to fast paced change will increasingly define their success. In this…
Trend: Short, sharp shocks of strategic insight
I was in Baltimore last week, where I was the opening keynote speaker for the 2010 Passkey Corporate Housing Forum. Passkey is a company that provides software for the corporate…
The big secrets of innovative organizations!
I've been quite priviliged through the years to be able to observe, within my global blue chip client base (which includes clients such as the National Australian Bank; Diners…
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