How do you double your chance of being productive? What tips do you have for being more productive? One Secret to Having a More Productive Week. Innovation Leadership Life PlanI’m reading Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success by Kerry Patterson, Al Switzler, Ron McMillan and Joseph Grenny. MORE >>

'Innovation means more than just new products or services. It means improving the process of creating those products, or selling them, or experiencing them, or even improving the ways we manage the people who do all of the above. That change can apply to products and processes, or it can apply to people. MORE >>

It builds on the overall trend of the arguments in the book series, which began by describing the entrepreneurial process, moved on to discuss core managerial approaches for succeeding with it, to – in the current book, “ Innovation ” – analyzing the importance of the entrepreneurial function itself to a vibrant, healthy economy. MORE >>

A 2009 report by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM)* identifies eight ways to increase innovation that remain relevant in 2011. This 32 page report assessed the state of innovation at US companies [.]. MORE >>

Cellular communications, the laser, digitized and synthesized music, the solar battery cell, the first orbiting communications satellite, and the UNIX operating system, are all products of Bell Labs. Finding an aspect of modern life that doesn’t incorporate some strand of Bell Labs’ DNA would be difficult. And then—sometimes—a lead. MORE >>