Ideas Are Not Innovations

(Note: This review first appeared on OPEN Forum.) Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits had three goals in mind when they set out to publish The Lean Entrepreneur: How to Create Products, Innovate with New Ventures, and Disrupt Markets. The first was to describe why our economy is primed for a new wave of entrepreneurship using new […]

Mind Of The Warrior…Got OODA?

This past Memorial Day got me reflecting on the warriors I’ve known–some fallen, many still alive and well–not just soldiers fighting on foreign soil, but also those protecting our home turf. I teach a one-day innovation course twice a year at the California Command College, an advanced continuing education series for future police chiefs. My […]