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There has been much attention over the years on how the LEGO Group works with its super fans. The growth mindset behind the approach is key.

Photo by Nong Vang on Unsplash What makes Elon Musk stand out as an innovator? Is it his audacious goal of going to Mars? Or his determination to challenge t...

Creativity is how we reinvent ourselves and protect our livelihoods from becoming automated. Back in the age of enlightenment learning was about human dignit...

How might brands lead the way and role model responsible business? Richard Straub, founder of the Peter Drucker Society Europe, brings together a great argum...

Can ecosystems be engineered or are they by default out of control of individuals? Can companies be founded on the explicit intent to nurture ecosystems of v...

Power is changing hands. Connectivity is changing how we communicate, the kinds of products we find valuable and the services that we prefer. For a long time...

Recently I sat down with a friend who was very excited. She had applied to the MIT Media Lab and couldn’t wait to hear back if she had been accepted. An acco...

Someone asked me a while ago about how we can control the LEGO brand given that it has such a vibrant community? I tried not to laugh, because the person had...

Companies and leaders everywhere is shifting more and more from the traditional command and control way of leading, towards networked collaboration. The pace...

Last week I had the pleasure to be at the Front End Innovation Europe conference, to give a key note on moving towards an eco-system of value creation with c...

Take global warming or government regulation as examples – these are all very complex topics, collections of variables where solving the problem cannot be ac...

Assuming you have a smooth running innovation machine – and you work from solid consumer insight – how come things can still go wrong? Interestingly, cogniti...

Like innovation, there are plenty of misconceptions about creativity, which make it all the more confusing when people are extolling the importance of creati...

Some years ago I came across an excellent paper by Juan Pablo Valencia and Taryn Westberg at the London Business School, where extensive investigations were ...

What are the principles for creating growth? Or rather, what are the things you need to make sure your ideas for growth address in order for you to ensure th...

A friend recently postulated that having budget constraints can encourage better innovation than those with lots of money to burn as this provides a framewor...

Recently I had the pleasure to meet Mitchel Resnick, a professor at the MIT, and listen to his presentation of the Lifelong Kindergarten project. Resnick is ...

Why is it that some individuals become geniuses, others retire as millionaires, business empires get built seemingly from scratch and in other cases talented...

You can take a starting point in anything, to help guide a problem-solving process – but you could say there is value to be had in understanding how to bette...