I find social media as fun and engaging as the next person, but imagine if all the creative talent that was pouring into finding increasingly clever ways for us to broadcast daily banality (and then serve ads based on what is learned) instead focused on some of the UN Millennium goals? The world would be a better place.

Hollywood Joohn Tatum? He does at least 6,000 sit ups and 10,000 pushups a day!

In the early stages of innovation, your goal is to learn as much as you can as quickly as you can.

A spreadsheet for an innovative idea reports the mathematical relationship between made up numbers. You can't cash a spreadsheet.

Successful strategies adhere to a basic pattern.

I've never seen impeccable logic be sufficient to win both the heart and the mind.

The CEO should ask what he or she can do to raise the organization's curiosity quotient. One way to do this is to seek to learn more about current or prospective customers, not to figure out which segmentation model to slot them into, but to really understand them as human beings. Another is to live at the intersections where innovation magic occurs.