• Skip to main content
  • Skip to after header navigation
  • Skip to site footer

JD Meier

Inspiring the World with Innovation

  • HELP ME WITH
    • Innovation Skills
    • Agile Skills
    • Digital Transformation Skills
    • Strategy Skills
    • High Performance Skills
    • Master Program Management
    • Teams & Teamwork Skills
    • View More…
  • ARTICLES
  • BOOKS
  • COURSES
  • ABOUT
  • MORE…
    • Cheat Sheets
    • Slides

Innovation

Why So Many Ideas Die

Why So Many Ideas Die or Don’t Get Adopted

“Don’t die with your music still inside you. Listen to your intuitive inner voice and find what passion stirs your soul.” – Wayne Dyer I didn’t know whether to call this why adoption fails, or why ideas die, but regardless, they are deeply related. After all, one of the main reasons ideas die is that …

Read moreWhy So Many Ideas Die or Don’t Get Adopted
how to kill innovation

How To Kill Innovation

“The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It’s this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company.” — Ginni Rometty A few years back I was working on a culture change effort for Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft. To prepare myself for the challenges ahead, I reflected …

Read moreHow To Kill Innovation
Brain shuts down about the future

Why Innovation Is Tough (Your Brain Shuts Down When You Think About the Future)

“The future depends on what we do in the present.” – Mahatma Gandhi. We’re disconnected from our Future Self.  We don’t have empathy. We don’t relate to how our Future Self, is really us in the future.   We can’t imagine. I always wondered why it seemed so hard for some people to imagine how things …

Read moreWhy Innovation Is Tough (Your Brain Shuts Down When You Think About the Future)
how to use email memos

How To Use Email Memos to Share Your Big Ideas Better

“Email has an ability many channels don’t: creating valuable, personal touches – at scale.” — David Newman Have you ever read an inspiring email or a memo from one human to another that helps you see a whole new world of possibility? I’m sure you’ve read lots of bad emails, too, just like there are …

Read moreHow To Use Email Memos to Share Your Big Ideas Better
how to innovate like Einstein

How To Innovate Like Einstein

“Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.” — Theodore Levitt Innovation is a game everyone can play. But you need innovation tools and techniques to be more effective. What if you could innovate like Archimedes, Einstein, or Edison?  What new process would you create, what new product would you design, or …

Read moreHow To Innovate Like Einstein
  • Go to page 1
  • Go to page 2
  • Go to page 3
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 8
  • Next →

Sidebar

Hacking a Better World!

JD I am J.D. Meier. I inspire the world through innovation, entrepreneurship, and personal development. Learn more...

Popular Articles

10 Things Great Managers Do
40 Hour Work Week at Microsoft
How To Become an Innovator
How To Drive Digital Transformation
How To Lead High-Performance Teams
View More...

Hack a Better World!

Topics

  • Innovation
  • Agile
  • Strategy
  • Leadership
  • Digital Transformation
  • High Performance

Copyright © 2022 · JD Meier · All Rights Reserved