Getting an early investment does not mean that leaders need to commit to any specific innovative idea. Over time, leaders should make decisions about which ideas to kill. There are typically four good reasons to kill an idea during the various stages of innovation.

If it’s not the CEO, maybe you need to designate a chief entrepreneur.

For some, the office even stifles creativity. As the pandemic eases in the U.S., a few companies seek to reimagine what work might look like.

Traditional design methods struggle when dealing with complex or chaotic problems or with large amounts of data. The affinity diagram…

Middle managers are often blamed for stifling innovation within large companies. But how fair is this characterization of middle management?

Here are the skills you really need.

David Marquet

How to create more value for your customers and you

Step into your “yikes zone,” then break anxiety-producing and overwhelming tasks into small, doable pieces.

Instead of aiming for perfection, think about how you can create your legacy by demonstrating an agile mindset.

[This is an excerpt from The Dance of the Possible: the mostly honest completely irreverent guide to creativity] Many of our popular stories of discovery are portrayed as accidents or matters of lu…

March 5, 1975. A cold and drizzly evening in Menlo Park, California.