Whether you are a highly successful personal inventor like Lisa Lloyd or a Fortune 100 company, recognizing the great value of including high levels of diversity in your innovation process is a proven innovation best practice.

This is a fascinating interview with Lisa Lloyd who is in the top 1% of successful personal inventors.

Don't let the title fool you. While most of my podcasts focus on what it takes to be successful, learning from failures can also be very helpful. While this is about digital health startups the lessons apply to the vast majority of businesses.

This is another very good checklist to help you measure your best practices and inevitably learn a point or two that can help you be more successful.

This magazine is always a credible and helpful source about how to improve innovation results. There are some good fundamentals here that can help most innovation programs.

This is one of the better worldwide surveys of senior innovation leaders within significant companies. The insights are helpful to understand the bigger picture and these insights have the potential to improve your own innovation program.

Fast Company is, in my opinion, the leading business magazine when it comes to innovation. Their lessons and insights from 2018 can help many of my listeners.

It takes remarkably different skills to successfully innovative a business compared to successfully run an existing business. Knowing the top five skills necessary to successfully innovative business can help define your recruiting and training programs.

The recommended soft skills are drawn from a variety of very high quality research studies. There is much in common between the studies that can give you confidence that these are the skills you want to building your innovation program.

CEOs and other top leaders play a critical role in innovation success. This podcast sure some very important specific actions senior leaders need to take if they want to foster a culture of successful innovation.