I've come to the conclusion that the core characteristic that separates companies that get innovation from those that don't is a simple word: curiosity.

Think about how you will start and where you will go. Get the head with logic and the heart with visuals or stories. And think about your core customer and all the other stakeholders as well.

Make sure that you take the time to think about how other companies might respond to your idea, both those companies already in the market you plan to target as well as others that might imagine targeting that market.

Why do people do crossword puzzles? There's no reward for completing one, but some people just like the challenge.

If you invest the time to understand the customer better than they know themselves, if you know the things they want or need even if they can't articulate it, you can begin to develop a good sense as to where there really are unmet needs in the market.

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

We fool ourselves into thinking that the spreadsheets that capture our financial projections are something different than what they are.