Innovation Lessons: World’s Fastest Bike
It’s coming around to that time of year again when I stay up late to watch perhaps the most spectacular sporting events in the world: Le Tour De France. And, in the spirit of cycling and innovation we share ten innovation lessons from the creation of Specialized S-Works Venge ViAS bike that Mark Cavendish and […]
Seven Disruption Design Principles
Here are the seven principles from my new-old book Every New Thing… I’ve been thinking of them as design principles for new products and services. And, given they could create revolutionary products I’m calling them disruption design principles… 1 Inform: tell me something Definition: Things that inform us, educate us, we can learn from In […]
Innovation Design Principles
Previously I introduced my book from 2001, Every New Product. And, my intention to update it based on current events. Thus, my new old book… And, this will be my basic theme for my blog for the near future. Today I want to share the underlying concept behind the book: Design Principles The Need for […]
My New Old Book
Previously, I wrote about how I’d been taking a shortcut in getting my blog posts out to meet my personal quota of one a day. And, that I’d been writing about things that weren’t forwarding my purpose of writing books to secure speaking engagements talking about the near future now. My New Book Project Today, […]
My Blog Shortcuts
You’d think after 916 blog posts that I’d have it all sorted. And, I haven’t. At the start of this year I made the public declaration that I was going to blog every single day this year. Today is 173 days in a row. We’re just under half way through the year. Pretty damn good […]
The Most Important Stories
What’s the most important story of all? We’ve been sharing about stories lately and some extracts from one of our recent Book Rapper issues called The Long Tale. It’s derived from the eight stories from Valerie Khoo’s brilliant book Power Stories. We’ve previously shared a summary her book here. And, shared the extracts Your Business Story and What’s Your Calling? Plus, […]
Four Ways to Waste Time
Time. Mmm… Important! Our lives are defined by the time we have from our birth and our death. And, the quality of our lives is determined by what we do in between. We don’t know if we have five days, five months or five decades left in our lives. Yet, despite this natural constraint, I often […]
How to Sell Your Service – 13 Sneaky Easy Ways
How to Sell Your Service How to sell your service is the killer question for all thought leaders, business experts and service providers. In this post we share 13 sneak easy ways that are sitting right under your nose. We’ve all been to the supermarket and been confronted by those beautifully smelling product samples. And, […]
Be a Better Speaker
Comedian Steve Martin once said the key to making it in any field was: Be undeniably good. When people ask me how do you make it in show business or whatever, what I always tell them and nobody ever takes note of it cuz it’s not the answer they wanted to hear — what they want […]
The Power of Stories
Every now and then I get a little obsessed and right now I’m obsessed with stories. I’ve been writing some more stories in my blog – notably my two most recent blog posts: How Fast Can You Change and When Was the Last Time You… I’ve also been reading books about Stories and in particular been […]