You don’t have to look far today to find career advice promoting the idea that you should ‘just follow your passion and the success will follow.’ Those who give the advice typically quote Steve Jobs’ keynote address to 23,000 Stanford graduates in 2005, when he...
This has probably happened to you: you’re at work, maybe in a meeting, and you have what you think is a brilliant idea. You think it so good you share it with your colleagues. “Well, hmmm … but it’ll It’ll never work,” one colleague says. “You...
Everyone knows the three things that matter in real estate: location, location, location. Steven Johnson, who wrote the bestseller Where Good Ideas Come From, explains in this TED talk how the three things that really matter for generating great ideas are these:...
So Why Doesn’t the Private Sector Appreciate This? The next time you use your smartphone, think of this: every feature that makes it ‘smart’ was initially created by the government. It’s true: taxpayers funded the research and development. The internet, GPS, the...
