This is another in my ongoing series about how you can be personally more successful as an innovator. I'm tapping into the wisdom and just plain good advice from some of the most successful innovators and entrepreneurs in our history. You will have fun and you will learn from this podcast.

This is another in my ongoing series about how you can be personally more successful as an innovator. I'm tapping into the wisdom and just plain good advice from some of the most successful innovators and entrepreneurs in our history. You will have fun and you will learn from this podcast.

This is an exceptionally good list of the traits that highly innovative people have. If you have all these traits and they are strong, it is hard not to be a very, very successful innovator.

I sure these quotes from a wide array of sources, like Einstein, Ronald Reagan, and Aristotle, to name a few. They are all loaded with wisdom and very thought-provoking. Take your time and listen – listen deeply.

I sure these quotes from a wide array of sources, like Einstein, Ronald Reagan, and Aristotle, to name a few. They are all loaded with wisdom and very thought-provoking. Take your time and listen – listen deeply.

Google is a highly successful company and innovator. Some insights taken from a Harvard Business Review article reveals some best practices that I think can help most innovators.

Historically the primary inspiration for innovation has been problem-solving. If we can only solve a problem the customer has with our product, that innovation will build her business. To be clear, solving problems is still a productive innovation area. But over the last couple of decades, a new innovation focus has produced far bigger and more successful innovations then problem-solving could ever have done in those businesses. Learn from case studies and the conditions that are right for this new kind of innovation focus.

It can be argued that Albert Einstein was the biggest innovator of the last century. In fact, Time magazine featured him on their cover in the year 2000 as their "Man of the Century." I share four qualities that shaped his ability to develop the breakthrough thinking that completely redefine the way we see the world around us.

In his life, Thomas Edison had almost 1100 patents. In this podcast I share some qualities that were fairly unique to Edison, but serve as great examples for all of us. These are the qualities of an ultra successful innovator.

This is another in a series of podcasts where I'm sharing insights from highly successful innovators. I have always loved learning from the best. Benchmark yourself against these qualities of highly successful innovators