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Home / Articles / Functions / Organization / Innovation

Adaptation: largest amoeba lives at the bottom of the Mariana Trench

Jim Leis | November 1, 2011 · Leave a Comment
4 inch amoeba

A 4 inch single cell organism is not science fiction? [...]

Filed in: Innovation - Keywords: Adaptation, gradualism, Innovation, natural selection

The Crisis That Hit Physics 100 Years Ago and the Solvay Council

Jim Leis | October 29, 2011 · Leave a Comment
1911_Solvay_conference.jpg

“The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks.” ~Albert Einstein 1912 [...]

Filed in: Innovation - Keywords: albert einstein, max planck, quantum theory, Solvay Council, Walther Nernst

11 things every entrepreneur should know about innovation

Jim Leis | October 28, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Innovation at work

Innovation is not necessarily revolutionary. But it is almost impossible to plan, and requires a supportive culture. [...]

Filed in: Innovation - Keywords: creative destruction, Innovation

Contradiction between science and innovation

Jim Leis | January 9, 2011 · Leave a Comment

There is something inherently contradictory in the application of scientific method to the study of innovation and complexity, which at least partly explains the adjectives of mysticism hurled at complexity research, most assuredly as an insult. But is it? [...]

Filed in: Innovation - Keywords: Complexity, Evolution, Innovation

Failure

Jim Leis | July 6, 2010 · 1 Comment

Failure: The secret to Success [...]

Filed in: Innovation, Video - Keywords: Failure, Success

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