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I remember in an early Pixar movie where the ants were slaves to the grasshoppers, and one ant makes timid overtures to improve things. “Get back in line” was the snarled response. How typical of the way many enterprises are run. The logic seems to be: here’s a job...

I just finished a book titled Innovation the NASA Way.  Those guys were seriously smart, and not because they had money to spend on tech gear. The computer power that sent men to the Moon was less than 1% of the processing power in your smart phone. What NASA used was...

Those of you who are my vintage (late Baby Boomer) would likely remember the “Oils ain’t Oils, Sol” TV ads.  A Godfather like character got cranky because any old oil was added to his limo.  “Oils ain’t Oils, Sol”!  It became a common phrase at the time to explain...