Topic: Thomas Edison

A Serious Entrepreneur Should Have...

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»

Is a Brand Like Air?

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

How to Fail Before You Open

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»

Fast History: Thomas Edison Ignites the Movie Business, 1897

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»

Ideo's David Kelley wins Edison Award for Innovation

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»

Photocopy Cat

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»

Failure as a Success Strategy

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»

Why Success is For the Unlucky

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»

Ideas Are Not Enough

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»

Sustaining an Advantage

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»

Time to Dive Back In

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»

Innovators Are Better Than Inventors?

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»

Persistence Persuades: The Lost Art of Follow-Up

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»

Innovation & Making Ideas Actually Happen.

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»

Lighting the GE Way

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

Innovation Adoration

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»

Minister of Progress

Job Titles of the Future: Scott EriksonREAD»

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

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»

Work/Life: Labor (Day) Pains

Labor Day is 125 years old this weekend. And the American Psychological Association is urging us all to leave the workplace behind until Monday. They did a recent survey that showed nearly one third of us have trouble balancing our ...READ»

Why Innovation Matters

A.G. Lafley and Ram Charan from the book The Game Changer: How Every Leader Can Drive Everyday Innovation on why innovation matters.READ»

• 8 Skills of People Who Perform
• How to Kill an Idea

If He's So Smart...Steve Jobs, Apple, and the Limits of Innovation

The battle over digital music is just another verse in Apple's sad song: This astonishingly imaginative company keeps getting muscled out of markets it creates. So what does Apple have to tell us about innovation?READ»

Fast 50 2008: GE

GE Innovation guruREAD»

• Presenting the 2008 Fast 50
• The World's Most Innovative Companies
• The Faces and Voices of Google

Brain Calisthenics

We road-test three exercises designed to stretch the imagination.READ»

Never Mind! Pepsi Pulls Much-loathed Tropicana Packaging

Laid up with the flu recently, my daughter sent her boyfriend out for chicken soup and orange juice. What he brought back appalled her. "There was this carton of juice on the counter that looked like the generic supermarket ...READ»

Les Paul: The Guitar, the Logo, the Legend

A tribute to the Architect of Rock & Roll, who died yesterday at 94.READ»

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