Observing when I feel most confident, I realized that patience is a key element. It's a mobius strip. Patience and confidence feed each other seamlessly. Confidence and patience go hand in hand. Without patience, confidence lacks the oxygen it needs to breathe, grow, and relax.

Patience ripens good ideas. Patience lets unprofitable ideas fall by their own weight. Patience deepens relationships.



Is patience passive? Does "being patient"… Continue

Drs. Bettina von Stamm and Anna Trifilova joined forces to create "The Future of Innovation."

They sent out invitations to innovators the world over to ask them to contribute five-hundred words… Continue

The future of innovation will require a more honest, sincere and open language, a language with more space around words. This spacious language of innovation will be free of hyperbole, superlatives and blame. It will be the language of being at cause, rather than at effect. And, most importantly, it will be the language of listening. Read more… Continue

Innovation - as is everything else that's real and valuable -- only takes place in the NOW. Innovation is always real-time. Dwelling in the past or the future bogs us down, and pulls us away from the present opportunities. Without consciously acknowledging and receiving the good right now, we cannot innovate within our companies or our lives.



Sometimes, I plow through my days without taking the time to receive the gifts handed me ... to consciously acknowledge them and say, "Thank… Continue