How to Innovate, Part 3: Relate

How to Innovate, Part 3: Relate

June 20, 2023 In the first two parts of this series, you learned how to Observe the world around you and Distill your observations into patterns. In these first two steps of the Wheel of Innovation, your work was purely theoretical. You learned how to heighten your...
Unleash What’s Possible

Unleash What’s Possible

May 9, 2023 In a recent article, I talked about the 3-story limit that architects in the early 1900s had to deal with. How wood and bricks were the only materials they could use. But those materials had a problem: buildings could only be built so high because wood and...
Innovation Tactics from Childhood

Innovation Tactics from Childhood

April 11, 2023 Do you remember the magic and wonder of the world when we were kids? When we were little, we noticed everything around us. We paid attention to the smallest detail. Ants carrying bits of dirt one by one. How ice cream melts and runs down the side of a...