David Keyes

Make No Mistake: Seeking Perfection Harms Innovation: Scandals’ worst effect may be to quash risk-taking. Richard Farson and Ralph Keyes At the moment, investors and politicians are trying to put out the firestorm of corporate crimes that came to light after the Enron collapse. They are insisting not only on intensive investigations and accounting reforms …

Writer Suggests Failing Until You Can’t Fail Anymore Mike Harden Ralph Keyes of Yellow Springs, Ohio has co-written the perfect gift for someone who has been fired, laid off or upbraided for concocting a bold new project that tanked. Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins: The Paradox of Innovation (Free Press, $22) is an anthem …

Learn to Analyze Detail: Inspiration In Plain Sight by Robin Grugal Inspiration for great ideas is all around us – not hidden in shadowy recesses, but right there in plain sight. All it requires is for us to see the obvious with fresh eyes. Easier said than done? Sure, it’s in our nature to overlook …

Now Get Out There and Fail! Mike Leonard You’ve completed your course work, snatched up your diplomas and hit up all of your parents’ friends for graduation gifts. You’ve also probably heard more advice and inspirational words than you can stomach, although if someone sidled up to you and said, knowingly, “plastics,” that was worth …

For managers: “Innovators are seldom easy to be around. The most creative members of an organization can be irascible, annoying, touchy, intolerant, prickly, self-aggrandizing. Their lack of tact offends co-workers. It also makes them willing to speak up when others hold their tongues. What comes out of their mouths is often quite valuable, if not …