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Ideo's David Kelley wins Edison Award for Innovation

BY Linda Tischler
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On April 1, Ideo founder David Kelley will be awarded the Edison Achievement Award by the Thomas Edison Papers at Rutgers University for his “pioneering contributions to the design of breakthrough products, services, and ...READ»

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Photocopy Cat

BY Heath Row
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Today in 1876, Thomas Edison received a patent for his mimeograph. Belated thanks to Tom for every single interoffice memo and policy manual I've ever received.READ»

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Failure as a Success Strategy

BY Fast Company Staff
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Look beneath the surface of many great business successes, and you're likely to find a trail of failures that preceded them. Describing the painstaking trial-and-error process that led eventually to the creation of the incandescent ...READ»

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Is a Brand Like Air?

BY David Brier
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A brand is more like air than meets the eye.READ»

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A Serious Entrepreneur Should Have...

BY seriuos entrepreneur
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If you are ready to be one of the successful and top earning marketers online, there's one thing that you should be ready to invest, and that's the time to do the work this industry will demand from you. To learn exactly ...READ»

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Fast History: Thomas Edison Ignites the Movie Business, 1897

BY Clay Dillow
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Though most famous for his Promethean invention of the light bulb, Thomas Edison patented the Kinetoscope 112 years ago today, igniting the medium that became the motion picture industry. While the Kinetoscope allowed only a single ...READ»

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How to Fail Before You Open

BY Milton Jackson
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Some small start ups tend to fail before they even begin to conduct business. This article not only explains why, but how to start an successful endeavor.READ»

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What Would da Vinci and Edison Say to Today's Innovators?

BY Adrian Ott
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If Leonardo da Vinci and Thomas Edison were alive today, what best practices and wisdom would they impart? An interview with Michael J. Gelb, bestselling author of How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci and Innovate Like Edison provides insights. READ»

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Ideas Are Not Enough

BY Vijay Govindarajan
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Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration. Thomas Edison said it nearly a century ago. Few listened. We've been researchers in the field of innovation for several years now. We have shelves full of books on the topic. ...READ»

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Life Lessons My Children Taught Me On The Golf Course

BY Ted Eleftheriou
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While playing a round of golf with my kids... I learned some important lessons about life.READ»

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Why Success is For the Unlucky

BY Tia Jackson
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Too many people go through life like they’re playing the Mega Millions. They make a small investment, and then sit back hoping to hit the jackpot. More often than not, they’re left disappointed and defeated, because the luck they expected to swoop in and change their lives, never showed up. Success is not a matter of chance. READ»

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Start Now, Don't Wait

BY Ilya Bodner
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Don’t wait around. Start now. Lack of inertia is the #1 killer of great ideas. According to a survey performed by Yahoo! Small Business, 66% of Americans over the age of 18 have considered starting a business, but many never take the leap. “There's a way to do it better - find it.” – Thomas EdisoREAD»

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Time to Dive Back In

BY Donna Karlin
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Summer used to be a time when things slowed down. That doesn't seem to be happening any more. People think summer is quieter and then they ask "Whatever happened to Summer"? For many, especially those in positions ...READ»

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Sustaining an Advantage

BY Mark Dziersk
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Design has the ability to connect the emotional underpinning of sustainability issues to any business or product and create 'Unique Selling Propositions' that elevate the promise of brands and companies.READ»

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Innovators Are Better Than Inventors?

BY David Mullings
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I recently picked up Finding An Angel Investor in a Day to see what kind of advice was in there and to get additional info on term sheets. I found the following breakdown very interesting: Three Types of ...READ»

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Persistence Persuades: The Lost Art of Follow-Up

BY Ruth Sherman
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Have you ever wondered how some people get ahead in life? I know that I have. These people succeed in careers that they seem to have marginal talent for. They exist in every business, every profession. So how do they do it? They are ...READ»

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Innovation & Making Ideas Actually Happen.

BY Scott Belsky
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Thomas Edison said it best, "Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration." For the creative professional, we believe that ideas are simply sparks in an ether of possibility. But the sparks often disappear as quickly as ...READ»

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Lighting the GE Way

BY Ryan Underwood
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GE is working as hard as it can to kill off its lightbulb business -- before someone else does.READ»

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Innovation Adoration

BY Heath Row
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Harold Evans' new book They Made America is getting good pickup in recent weeks. U.S. News & World Report excerpts the book's examination of Thomas Edison, and Sunday paper mainstay Parade trots out Evans' top 10 list of the most ...READ»

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Failure is Nothing Personal

BY Sharlyn Lauby
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Normally I sleep like a rock. But recently I haven’t been sleeping well. One night, while I was surfing the infomercials to cure my insomnia, I stumbled across a commercial from a drug company about losing weight ...READ»

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Minister of Progress

BY Polly LaBarre
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Job Titles of the Future: Scott EriksonREAD»

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Creative Destruction, Eco-Frivolity, and 67 Other Innovations I Saw This Week

BY Marc Stoiber
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Green is a hotbed of innovation today. But which new ideas are groundbreaking, and which are destined for the Darwinian heap? READ»

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Imaginary Barriers

BY Josh Linkner
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We all have fears and doubts. Even Steve Jobs. Even Barack Obama. One of the key differences between those that do extraordinary things and those that don't is the courage to move ahead even in the face of adversity.READ»

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Are Wind Farms Further Dividing Socio-Economic Classes?

BY Jenara Nerenberg
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Fresh opposition to wind farms from the U.K.'s elite causes concern for the future of alternative energy and social disparities.READ»

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Singularity Cinema: A Q&A With the Director of Ray Kurzweil Bio-doc 'Transcendent Man'

BY Alissa Walker
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Inventor Ray Kurzweil was never your typical entrepreneur. His first company developed omni-font optical character recognition, leading to the invention of the flatbed scanner, a technology he later sold to ...READ»

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