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The hack to REINVENT meetings and instantly create 25% more time
A few years ago I stumbled accidentally into a meeting hack that changed the way we worked. We instantly created a 25% productivity improvement. Here’s what happened.
Reinventing innovation for a remote-work world
Last week, the CEO of Nike said: “it’s really hard to develop a boldly disruptive product on Zoom.” He’s right. But the solution to innovating in a remote-work world isn’t what most leaders think.
Super Bowl scale innovation
Almost exactly 29 years ago this month, I discovered one of the most important lessons about innovation of my life. These were the ingredients: A team + a goal + ideation + a constraint. And here’s how it worked.
How Generative A.I. works in 150 seconds…
As we closed out an epic 2023, I had the chance to explain how Generative A.I. works to normal humans. If you’re a normal human, you might like this 150 second video that breaks GPT down in a simple and quick way.
2023: The year of generative AI
As the calendar flips to 2024, there’s no better time to take stock of the innovation that we see in the world. The amount of Generative AI innovation that we saw in 2023 was nothing short of amazing. This is the best of the best in AI right now.
There’s a meeting apocalypse coming soon
Obviously, meeting with our team is important. But what is the cost of this awareness? Teams prioritize talking about work above all else – for 80% of their week. A.I. will blow that up. Can A.I. save us from communication overload?
I cloned myself with Artificial Intelligence
I think it’s important that we learn and experiment with Artificial Intelligence so that we can see first hand how it will impact the ways that we work, collaborate, and communicate on teams. There’s a lot of hype, for sure. But there’s also a lot that’s very real.
Are you a Demolitionist or an Incrementalist?
Entrenched industry leaders with deep customer relationships, and money in the bank, might not have the same change profile as a brand new startup throwing a hail-mary pass at their one chance at making it big. Here’s how they’re different…
There’s a massive opportunity waiting for Michigan
I believe that Michigan is standing on the precipice of their biggest opportunity in 120 years. In the next ten years, Michigan has the opportunity to become a global leader in innovation. Here’s what that future could hold…
I just quit a great job at Google. Here’s why…
Some of you may have noticed the last few weeks that I’ve been at a lot of events. In September, I went to 6 events and spoke at 5 of them. Some of you also noticed a change on my LinkedIn profile.
It’s true. I quit Google. Here’s why…
What if orchestras suffered from the problems of most teams?
The musicians of the orchestra begin to march in from both the sides of the stage. Every single one of the three thousand people in auditorium goes immediately silent. You could hear a pin drop.
But something isn’t right.
Welcome to the age of continuous change & exponential growth
Tomorrow, the only thing we can be certain of…is that it will be different than today. In the last 3 decades we’ve seen 6 of the most disruptive transformations in human history.
Everything teams think about leadership is wrong
2500 years ago, in ancient China, a legendary military general named Sun Tzu wrote a collection of chapters called the Art of War. It’s time to rewrite that book.