Always On Isn’t Always Smart

Starting this year, people working at Daimler will not have to come back from vacations with an e-mailbox jammed with correspondence they missed during their days off. Nor is Daimler asking them to attend to these e-mails while they are away. Instead, e-mails...

Is anyone safe from the future?

The Economist is one of the best-written journals published. And while it skews toward a conservative bent, it doesn’t shy away from taking on BIG questions. The cover story from the January 12 issue is a good example. “Innovation pessimism: Has the ideas machine...

Get The Picture?

If you are into nextsensing, you have to be into entertaining new thinking. This means that you have to be open to challenging ideas, concepts and possibilities — no matter where they come from. Some days, I don’t spot anything that tickles my next sense....

Failure Is Too An Option!

The first thing to note is that is was a BIG deal. The Consumer Electronics Show (CES), with some 150,000 attendees, not only was a big start for convention business in Las Vegas, it was also a big start for anyone wanting to attract attention for the next big thing...

Signature Differences

On our website you will see what we affectionately call the “Squiggle”. The origin of this line goes back at least a year, the work of two designers. Back then, I was simply searching for some symbol of disruptive ambiguity, the state of a leader’s...