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Could Empathy Teach Marketers to Cease Fire?

Like circus impresarios or wrestling promoters of yesteryear, some marketers talk about their audience as if they are dupes or "marks." If marketers were to consider how they feel as the "marketed to," some of the most disrespectful marketing practices wouldn't make it past the brainstorming chart.READ MORE

Reinventing the MBA: 4 Reasons to Mix Business With Design Thinking

A conversation with the author and dean of Rotman School of Management Roger Martin reveals why schools need to include design when teaching business.READ MORE

Embrace Your Small Ideas for Big Impacts

Nothing can kill innovation faster than the performance anxiety that results from outsized ambition. An ode to the little ideas that matter.READ MORE

Widespread Empathy: Rewiring Your Corporation for Intuition

Companies that make empathy an easy, everyday, and experiential part of work inevitably outperform their peers.READ MORE

Crafting Your Own Innovation Strategy: The Who, What, and How

If companies seek to innovate sustainably over time, they need to understand who they focus on, what they should make, and how they actually conceive and develop new products and services.READ MORE

Forget Design Thinking and Try Hybrid Thinking

The true secret to innovation can be found in "hybridity," the conscious blending of different and disperse fields of thought--which doesn't always have to include design.READ MORE

How Real Innovation Moves the Needle

In the wake of the financial disaster, it’s entirely legitimate to wonder: Is innovation relevant anymore? READ MORE

Introducing Guest Blogger Dev Patnaik: Innovation Meets Empathy

If you should need any evidence that Dev Patnaik, the CEO and founder of Jump Associates, is marching to the beat of a different drummer, consider this: He teaches a popular Stanford University course called Needfinding.READ MORE