Some amount of resistance to innovation happens when people tied to a prior success see the next big thing as a repudiation of their past contributions.

Take the edge off this emotional impulse by signaling respect and empathy with a simple practice: Complimen...

Innovation faces the inertia of the status quo defined by team members, organization culture, and whatever product or service solutions already exist. These all become anchors for evaluating the desirability of anything new. 

Every member of a team in any organi...

Taking multiple steps to iterate a prototype before declaring a readiness to go to market may feel like a slowdown.

But in fact, chunking down the work into iterative cycles can compress the time it takes to get to market with a product or service that works, and that people really...