Phil McKinney

Why do people believe you can build an innovation team by hiring a few smart people and giving them a creative space?

Any team can fill a whiteboard with ideas in an hour.

I first wrote this post in 2008, the year the Pentagon Memorial opened, and I bring it back to the top of this page every September.

Recognizing failure patterns is the closest thing an innovator has to seeing the future.

Mark Vena's "HP Needs More Than a New CEO," published in TechNewsWorld, has been showing up in my LinkedIn comments and my DMs since it was released.

Sherlock Holmes never once used deduction.

Think about the last thing you almost bought and did not.

In 1974, a psychologist named Elizabeth Loftus showed a group of people a film of a car accident.

What is half of thirteen?

Earlier today, CableLabs announced my retirement as President and CEO on January 1, 2027.

You trust your gut because it's been right before.

Everyone collects weak signals now.

In 2000, Toys R Us paid Amazon $50 million a year to sell their toys online.

Ask anyone why Hollywood keeps making sequels.

Every playbook, every case study, every innovation workshop is built on the same question: how do you succeed?

Most product decisions get made by analogy.

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