by Marcus Bieschke | Jul 2, 2019 | Innovation, Process
So far, when it comes to experiments, we’ve talked about what they are, why they’re important, how often we should do them, and how often we should reward for them. Those are all very important pieces of your thinking to refine if innovation is going to become a... 
by Marcus Bieschke | Jun 24, 2019 | Innovation, Process
When it comes to the contest for Poster Child of Experimentation, there isn’t any real debate. Even nearly 100 years after his death, Thomas Edison still epitomizes innovation through experimentation. Over the course of his 84 years of experimental living, he captured... 
by Marcus Bieschke | Jun 24, 2019 | Process
For the next several posts, I’d like to dig deeper and plant a few more thoughts deep in the soil of your mind as you think about innovation. Ever since I was a kid, I’ve liked to plant things and watch them grow. I’d dig a shallow hole in the rocky soil of the... 
by Marcus Bieschke | May 14, 2019 | Foundations, Innovation
Innovation is gritty work. It demands getting our hands dirty. It means embracing messy. It invites us to jump into “the weeds,” as we look for bold solutions to some of our world’s most ingrown problems. Ironically, the most effective innovations tend to spring from... 
by Marcus Bieschke | May 7, 2019 | Foundations, Innovation
Innovation requires that you become cohabitationally comfortable with certain core tensions—tensions between popular, “soft” concepts like collaboration, experimentation, freedom to fail, freedom from fear, and decentralized leadership and then less popular, “hard”... 