Several years ago, when my nephew enrolled in business school at the University of Southern California, I asked him to ping me whenever the topic of innovation came up. He pinged very little. As an innovation speaker and expert, I’ve long been frustrated with the lack of innovation in the teaching of this increasingly vital topic. The one course he took ...

Tolerance and diversity are the hallmarks of a modern society, yet, most of us still do this. A short quiz may radically change the way you look at this type of discrimination. I have a shocking revelation, we don’t pick when we were born. I’d like you to stop and think about something for a minute. What if the notion ...

Generation bashing is tearing organizations apart. Here’s a simple way to put an end to it. Iconic CEO Jack Welch came up with a way to bridge the generation gap in 1999 and yet almost 20 years later 86% of companies still haven’t caught on. In the late 1990’s GE’s iconic CEO, Jack Welch, did something unheard of. Welch was ...

Why Most of What You’ve Been Told About Millennials and Gen Z Is Dead Wrong Buying into a false generational narrative undermines our organizations and our society. Among our greatest enemies, as individuals, as organizations, and as a society are the false biases that justify an attitude of “us and them” –in a word, discrimination. Fortunately it’s one of the ...

As with all stereotyping, using generations to define the behaviors of an entire class of people is mostly a convenient and lazy fiction. The Final Frontier for Diversity The U.S. and most of the world’s developed economies have embraced and celebrate the importance of diversity in national origin, creed, race, and sexual orientation. We clearly have room for improvement, but ...

The year 2020 will mark the beginning of the most profound change in global demographics we’ve ever seen. Here are 3 ways to make that work in your favor. Big change takes us by surprise because it doesn’t fit the pattern of the past. Yet, like the images hidden in an Escher print, once we see the pattern we never ...

At 2 billion strong, Gen Z is rewriting the rules for how we live, work, and play. 2015 was an extraordinary year; it’s the first year that Gen Z, individuals born in 1995 and beyond began entering the workforce. At two billion strong globally Z is the single largest cohort to ever sweep through civilization. Hyperconnected, wielding extreme social influence, ...

One of the most challenging sociodemographic dynamics facing business owners is literally one for the ages: how to deal with the "new generation" of customer, partners, investors, and employees.

A new generation of technological deviants are emerging, who will help change the way we work, we can resist or join them in making organizations authentic and the world a better place.