Mucken Singh works VERY hard on his brawler's physique!

One of the biggest mistakes leaders make is to embrace the idea of spurring creativity by letting hundreds of flowers bloom. I've never seen that lead to anything other than cynicism and hundreds of dead flowers.

I've always found that working through ideas in written form really changes the thinking.

The most important thing here is to largely ignore what customers say, and instead watch what they do or track where they spend money.

Creating the new increasingly is more than 50 percent of a top leader's job.

You can increase the odds of spotting the weak points in your approach if you really think about the end-to-end business model you plan to follow - how you plan to create, capture, and deliver value.

Data about an innovative idea is rarely crystal clear.