What About a Skunk Works?
“We are defined not by the technologies we create but the process in which we create them” – Clarence (Kelly) Johnson, creator of the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works …
Innovation
The Innovation Value Chain
“We don’t want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want” – Laura Ashley In an earlier post I offered the following, …
Five Nonmarket Forces
“Corporate executives need to re-frame their responsibilities to include the interests of all the stakeholders in society at large; not just shareholders, but also employees, the citizens of …
Investor Rebellion
About a century ago, grey wolves were removed from Yellowstone National park as a result of mass extermination. In 1995, the animals were deliberately reintroduced. Nobody really knew …
Working Together
“If I have seen farther than other men, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants” – Isaac Newton The 2021 Formula 1 motor racing …
Being Disruptive
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change” – Charles Darwin The Woodlands is a …
Innovation – What’s That?
“The future is already here. It’s just very unevenly distributed” – William Gibson, science fiction writer I’m writing this blog having just returned from a holiday in the …
From Stockholm to Moscow
“If you want… …a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you only want a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare” – Mark Twain …
Never Before a Failure Like It
“…never before a car like it” – Ford Edsel marketing campaign, 1957 When my stepson married in Texas in 2019, he had already bought the car that would …
Action in a Time of Crisis
“It really has been something magic. We will never forget this night” – President Sebastián Piñera of Chile “The Chileans are basically writing the book.” Our journey starts …