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Low-Hanging Fruit: A book review by Bob Morris

March 7, 2022

Low-Hanging Fruit: 77 Eye-Opening Ways to Improve Productivity and Profits Jeremy Eden and Terri Long Wiley (2014) How to “get a good cash crop yield from business innovation” Years ago, I helped a Fortune 50 company establish an electronic suggestion…

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25 Accidental Inventions That Changed The World

October 17, 2018

Here is an excerpt from an article by Sameen, featured at the list25 website. To read the complete list and check out others, please click here. * * * You may not realize it, but many things you use every…

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Low-Hanging Fruit: A book review by Bob Morris

March 31, 2014

Low-Hanging Fruit: 77 Eye-Opening Ways to Improve Productivity and Profits Jeremy Eden and Terri Long Wiley (2014) How to “get a good cash crop yield from business innovation” Years ago, I helped a Fortune 50 company establish an electronic suggestion…

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The secret sauce of creativity

November 17, 2013

Having read and reviewed several dozen books on creativity, innovation, and design thinking, I think I now understand what could be described as a “secret sauce.” It is the result of a process of connection, combination, and coordination. Here’s how…

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11 Brilliant Inventions Made by Mistake

October 10, 2013

In The Innovation Expedition: A Visual Toolkit to Start Innovation (BIS Publishers, Amsterdam 2013), Gijs van Wulfen includes a brief but informative discussion of “accidental accidents.” 1. Columbus: When he first reached land during the first voyage, he thought he had…

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Todd Henry: An interview by Bob Morris

April 25, 2012

Todd Henry is the founder and CEO of Accidental Creative, a company that helps creative people and teams generate brilliant ideas.  He regularly speaks and consults with companies, both large and small, about how to develop practices and systems that lead…

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What makes business visionaries “tick”?

February 23, 2011

In his book Eight Steps Ahead: What Separates Business Visionaries from the Rest of Us, published by Portfolio/Penguin (2011), Erik Calonius reveals what makes visionaries tick and how they develop their extraordinary powers.  We learn, for example, • How Steve…

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