Category: General

The Business 2.0 magazine has a very interesting story on the cover of the December edition: “How to Succeed in 2007”. They basically asked advice to business leaders, CEOs, nobel prizes and other people regarding how to succeed on the coming year. Here are some of the topics covered and some of my favorite respondants.

Below you will find the 4 most visited posts of November, check them out if you missed any.

The Business 2.0 magazine has an interesting article covering what they called “crowdcasting”, which could be seen as open source innovation. The article basically describes how established companies like General Electric, IBM and DaimlerChrysler are turning to crowds of students to foster innovation within their companies.

I am sitting at the Madrid airport as I write this. I know that you could care less but hey, those are the benefits of writing a blog, you can talk about your personal experiences once in a while. Unfortunately there was no direct flight from Milan to Sao Paulo so I was forced to get a connection through Spain.

Apparently yes. Forbes has an interesting article describing VIPP, a danish company that sells trash cans. The side note is that those cans sell for $400 a pop, and sales are growing by 30% yearly. When I saw the price I thought “hhmm, for 400 bucks those trash cans must walk around the house collecting garbage here and there…”

I am launching a new blog called Daily Blog Tips, where I will share what has worked for me in the past, what has not worked, blogging tips and the like.

That is right. I have been planning to do so for a couple of weeks, but now it is official. The reason is quite simple, I want to walk with my own legs.

Last week Innovation Zen was officially recognized as a SOB, which stands for Successful and Outstanding Blog. The SOB project is maintained by Liz Strauss over the Successful-Blog.

Probably most of you already know that Edmund Phelps won the 2006 Nobel prize for economics (the real name of the prize is The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2006).

An old professor of mine used to say that the best way to make people review their assumptions, to generate commitment and to promote change is through the use of manifestos. Then again, when we talk about change we inevitably talk about innovation.