Let the People Live-Stream?

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Startup Koozoo wants us to join its streaming video network. I’m not convinced of its widespread utility, though.

Top 20 Innovation Articles – February 2013

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Drum roll please At the beginning of each month we will profile the twenty posts from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Innovation Excellence. We also publish a weekly Top 10 as part of our free Innovation Excellence Weekly magazi

Your Brain Is Hooked on Being Right

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I’m sure it’s happened to you: You’re in a tense team meeting trying to defend your position on a big project and start to feel yourself losing ground. Your voice gets louder. You talk over one of your colleagues and correct his point of view. He pus

Is Personality Coaching a Part of Life Coaching?

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Life coaching is about helping clients achieve their goals and dreams by asking questions and helping create a road map to these goals, but can it also be about personality coaching? As a life coach, are you also a personality coach? Do you delve int

Africa Is More Stable than You’ve Been Led to Think

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The recent political instability in Mali has cast a cloud of poor publicity over the economic and commercial rise of Africa, one of the few bright spots in the global economy. Press analysis has speculated whether political instability is endemic to

The 3 Rules Of Innovation: Location, Location, Location

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Does manufacturing have a future in the U.S.? A two-year-long study suggests it does–especially if companies work together. It’s been two years since a group of 21 scientists from MIT announced the creation of Production in the Innovation Economy

Why Innovation By Brainstorming Doesn’t Work

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Anything–even doing laundry–will help you dream up new ideas better than sitting in a meeting, says Debra Kaye, author of “Red Thread Thinking.” A case study of the history of the single-use detergent pod. Eleven men and women file into a conferenc

You can’t change everything or everyone, but you can change the people who matter

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Marketing is about change–changing people’s actions, perceptions or the conversation. Successful change is almost always specific, not general. You don’t have a chance to make mass change, but you can make focused change. The challenge of mass media

The Value of an MBA for Women [Infographic]

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Do you need to go back to school and get an MBA? The answer to that question depends on your career goals, but research shows that an MBA can lead to increases in pay and opportunities for women in business. The infographic below shows a number of st

A Password You Wear on Your Wrist

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Mobile security startup PassBan offers smartphone owners a slew of authentication options—including one you can wear.A mobile security startup called PassBan thinks the best way to keep mobile devices secure is to allow people to choose from a bevy