The Culture of Innovation

This story about some of the most innovative organizational cultures in history was originally published in MISC Magazine as a two-part series (part 1 here and part 2 here). History is rife with examples of breakthroughs and innovative leaps. However, if we look to the past 150 years, we begin to notice a clustering of…

Valley Groupthink and the Tech Bubble v2.0

Another week and another round of layoffs in the Valley. Yahoo drops nearly 300 people. Toshiba says goodbye to about 50. 70 disappeared from the ranks of Autodesk. These all add to the growing number of over 3000 layoffs in the first four months of 2016 in the Valley – and that doesn’t even include…

Death to Process

This article originally appeared in MISC Magazine. I feel like I’ve written this article countless times. Still, apparently people keep being entertained and who knows – maybe I’m delusional and feel like I’m stuck in a perpetual loop but am actually evolving my thinking a little bit each time. Alas, as always, I digress. Here we…