You know what's funny? Everyone has an opinion about innovation, but most of them are shaped by frameworks from 10 years ago or consultants trying to sell you something. Let's be honest: most of what you've been told about innovation is either incomplete, outdated, or designed to make someone else richer. The Real Problem The issue isn't that innovation is complicated. It's that we've made it complicated. We've wrapped it in jargon, buried it under processes, and convinced ev

You know what's funny? Everyone has an opinion about innovation, but most of them are shaped by frameworks from 10 years ago or consultants trying to sell you something. Let's be honest: most of what you've been told about innovation is either incomplete, outdated, or designed to make someone else richer. The Real Problem The issue isn't that innovation is complicated. It's that we've made it complicated. We've wrapped it in jargon, buried it under processes, and convinced ev

Let's be honest: Corporate training is where good intentions go to die. You know the drill. You get pulled into a conference room (or now, a Zoom call) for some mandatory training on "leadership excellence" or "synergistic innovation" or whatever buzzword the HR department found on LinkedIn that week. You spend two hours half-listening while scrolling through your phone, take a quiz at the end to prove you were technically present, and then immediately forget everything becau