According to research from my firm, CEO’s are thinking about with the same stage-gate mindset that Randal and I are in our new book, IGNITE: Setting your Organization’s Culture on Fire with Innovation. In the video below, taken from PwC’s CEO research, we hear CEOs share how they are rising to the innovation challenge — through cultural change, breaking the ...

==A special guest post from Randal C. Moss, the co-author of my new book on Innovation: “IGNITE :Setting your Organizations Culture on Fire with Innovation” == Why Jigsaw Matters The in-house think tank of Alphabet (Google) is being spun off into its own entity now known as Jigsaw. The spin off matters. Their work matters. The fact that there is ...

Many individuals at SXSW stand at the intersection of for-profit, brands, social good startups, and nonprofits. I’m leading a session for those like minded folks to come together at SXSW and talk about what the future holds for the mothers and fathers of today’s social good startups, the “old-fashioned” nonprofit organization. This is my second year to hold this meetup ...

Some of you might know I’m on several great nonprofit boards here in Austin, TX. One of those is the University of Texas C0-op. As an outside director for the Co-op I’ve enjoyed learning the retail business from a nonprofit perspective inside and out. I’ve also learned that the University Co-op has been in business for 120 years, and is ...