The Curious Engineer

All blogs / Tech news / industry

Digital Tonto

digitaltonto.com

At the Crossroads of Media, Marketing and Technology

Tech news / industryEngineering management / careersSociety / politics / economy

’10’15’20’25
Posts
1,419 from 22 Jul 2009 to 25 Oct 2026
Posting
weekly (51 in the last year)
Kind
personal blog
Feed
https://digitaltonto.com/feed/

2026 43

  1. The Trump Administration Wants To Take Greater Control Of Scientific Grants. Here’s Why That’s A Terrible Idea.
  2. The Change Management Playbook Is Broken. Here Are 3 Counterintuitive Strategies That Actually Work
  3. The Smartest Guys on the Planet: Why Even Very Smart People Can Think Really Dumb Things
  4. Despite The Hype, Innovation Isn’t Getting Any Faster. Here’s Why:
  5. How To Sound Human, Not Like A Robot, In The Age Of AI
  6. Most Leaders Listen the Wrong Way. Here Are 3 Skills to Master:
  7. The Urgency Trap: The Faster You Feel You Need To Go, The More Careful You Need To Be
  8. The AI “New Era” Illusion: Why Every Boom Looks Different—But Ends the Same
  9. 3 Fundamental Rules That Change Management Consultants Will Never Tell You
  10. Disinformation Doesn’t Care About Your Facts. Here’s How You Can Fight Back.
  11. The Cockroach Movement Is Shaking Up India. Here’s What Every Leader Needs to Learn:
  12. Happy 17th Birthday, Digital Tonto!
  13. You Have A Big Idea. Here’s How To Turn It Into Impact
  14. Silicon Valley Pundits Are Obsessed With The Concept Of “High Agency.” Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Be:
  15. Leaders Need To Communicate Clearly. Here Are 3 Core Principles That Will Help You Do That
  16. How Great Leaders Create A Shared Identity
  17. How To Build A Culture Of Change
  18. How The Knowing-Doing Gap Undermines Even The Best Ideas
  19. Trust Is Broken. Here’s How We Rebuild It.
  20. The Myth of the Hero’s Journey—And Why It’s Killing Change In Your Organization
  21. 4 Things I Learned Managing People
  22. The World Is Not Digital—And That’s Why Software Won’t Eat It
  23. Why Change Doesn’t Really Come From The Top: The True Story of Blockbuster & Netflix
  24. The Tony Soprano Problem: Why Even The Strongest Leaders Get Blindsided
  25. Why The Hardest Part of Building The Future Is Letting Go Of The Past
  26. Change Is Not Persuasion: These 3 Key Elements Are What Every Transformation Strategy Needs
  27. The Cobra Effect: Why Managing by Metrics Backfires
  28. Can Artificial Intelligence Be Governed—Or Will It Govern Us?
  29. Stop Trying to “Educate” People Into Changing, Science Proves It Doesn’t Work
  30. The Humiliation Cycle: How Leaders Accidentally Weaponize Their Competition Against Them
  31. Why You Should NOT Become An AI Expert
  32. 3 Questions To Ask You Before You Begin A Major Transformation
  33. Why Breakthrough Innovation Often Needs To Start With Rebellion
  34. In The Era Of Trump, Corporate Leaders Need To Act To Protect Their Business
  35. Change Doesn’t Fail By Itself, It Fails Because People Resist It
  36. Even Great Ideas Don’t Sell Themselves. You Need Three Types of Power to Make Them Win.
  37. It’s The Institutions, Stupid
  38. Why It Pays To Believe In Luck
  39. We Are Living In A New Gilded Age—And, Like Then, The Backlash Is Building
  40. This One Key Insight Will Change How You Think About Change
  41. Why The Urge To Persuade Can Undermine Your Idea For Change
  42. Change Management Is Broken. These 4 Numbers Explain Why:
  43. 2026: A Year Of Questions And A Question of Institutions

2025 51

  1. Top Posts of 2025
  2. The 2025 Digital Tonto Reading List
  3. Good Stories Are Powerful — And They’re Also Traps
  4. 3 Stubborn Change Management Beliefs That Consistently Sabotage Genuine Transformation
  5. Why The Perfect Is So Often The Enemy Of The Good
  6. Why Silicon Valley’s Obsession With Logic Is Breaking the World
  7. Here’s How You Build Change That Lasts
  8. AI Is Booming—And The Bust Could Be Even Bigger
  9. How To Leverage Cultural Triggers To Engineer A High Performance Organization
  10. How To Design A Keystone Change In 4 (Not So Easy) Steps
  11. How To Navigate Power, Build Influence, And Finally Get Your Ideas Heard
  12. Why We Fail to Adapt — And The 3 Hidden Forces Holding You Back
  13. This Is How You Bring Down A Dictator
  14. How Tribal Instincts Drive Change
  15. What if The Future Looks Exactly Like The Past?
  16. Disruption Doesn’t Drive Innovation—Safety Does
  17. Here’s What Nobody Tells You About Building an Innovative Culture—Not Everyone Will Thrive In It
  18. How Ukraine Defied History
  19. If You’re Serious About Change, You Need To Make These 3 Mindset Shifts
  20. Happy 16th Birthday Digital Tonto!
  21. It’s Good to Learn From Your Mistakes. It’s Better to Learn From Someone Else’s.
  22. The Experts Aren’t the Problem. It’s How You’re Listening to Them
  23. When You Fail To Forge Shared Values, Your Vision Will Fail Too
  24. 3 Stupid Things Leaders Often Think
  25. When You Feel The Urge To Create A Conflict, Create A Dilemma Instead
  26. The End of History All Over Again…
  27. Why You Should Beware The Action Trap
  28. Change Usually Fails. Ask These 3 Questions To Improve Your Odds
  29. Here’s How To Think About Artificial Intelligence, Jobs And The Economy
  30. Working, Fast And Slow
  31. Summer Reading List: 17 Revolutionary Books
  32. Why Resistance to Change So Often Defies Logic
  33. How We Got Here—and What Needs To Come Next
  34. To Innovate, Leaders Need To Empower The Edges
  35. The Evidence Behind Why Big Transformations Start Small
  36. Culture Is How An Enterprise Honors It Mission
  37. We Need To Break The Disruption Mindset
  38. Why You Can’t Afford to Ignore Resistance to Change
  39. How Unexpected Connections Can Lead To Surprising New Breakthroughs
  40. Why Leaders Need To Master Tribal Signals
  41. The Science Behind Why Massive Change Seems To Happen All At Once
  42. Why Intention Will Be Central To The AI Economy
  43. First, Try Not To Fool Yourself, Because You are The Easiest One To Fool
  44. 3 Strategic Tools Every Changemaker Needs In Their Toolbox
  45. Why Smart Leaders Run Their Organizations With Dignity
  46. How To Navigate Today’s Media Environment When So Many Are Working To Mislead You
  47. This Is How Change Fails To Survive Victory (And What To Do About It)
  48. Experian Was Being Disrupted by Fintech Startups. Then They Turned the Tables
  49. How AI Can Help You Make Better Decisions
  50. 3 Types Of Change Problems (And How To Solve Them)
  51. 2025: The Coming Realignment

2024 50

  1. Top Posts of 2024
  2. The 2024 Digital Tonto Reading List
  3. What Gandhi Can Teach Us About Change
  4. To Make Tough Conversations Productive, Focus On These 3 Things
  5. When Things Seem Hopeless And That Nothing Will Ever Change, You Need To Prepare For The Next Window Of Opportunity
  6. The Best Way To Help Innovation Take Hold Is To Design A Co-optable Resource
  7. Gradually, Then Suddenly: Why Change Seems To Happen So Slowly, And Then All At Once
  8. Communicate A Vision To Shift Strategy, Shape Networks To Change Behavior
  9. We Live In Dangerous, Confusing Times. Here’s How To Make Sense Of Them.
  10. The Identity Trap
  11. Why Incentives So Often Fail
  12. To Lead Transformation, You Need To Shift From A Manager Mindset To A Changemaker Mindset
  13. Sometimes The Future Demands A Vision. This Is Probably Not One Of Those Times.
  14. How A Little-Known Company Used An Algorithm To Raise Rents On Millions Of Americans
  15. We Have Decades Of Research Telling Us How Change Works. We Need To Start Following The Evidence
  16. 3 Myths That Underlie Transformation Theater
  17. Happy 15th Birthday Digital Tonto!
  18. Here’s Why It’s So Hard To Change A Culture
  19. Why The Future Of Technology Is Always More Human
  20. 3 Questions Every Change Consultant Should Be Able To Answer
  21. We Say We Want Change, But The Status Quo Almost Always Wins Out. Here’s Why:
  22. Why You Often Need To Start Slow In Order To Go Fast
  23. The Best Way To Overcome Resistance And Defeat Doubters: Start with a Resistance Inventory
  24. There Is No Secret Formula. Effective Leaders Need To Master Mode Shifting.
  25. Why Bad Ideas Refuse To Die
  26. The 3 Pillars Of The Changemaker Mindset
  27. Why Do Pundits Work So Hard To Deny These 3 Things About Human Nature?
  28. Is AI Selfish?
  29. This Is One Big Reason Why So Much Business Thinking Is Crap
  30. Summer Reading List: 11 Books That Will Make You A Better Communicator
  31. Look Out For These 3 Telltale Signs Of Transformation Theater
  32. There Are Things That Machines Can’t Do (And Never Will)
  33. Why The Suckers Always Think They’re Playing It Smart
  34. Here’s Why “Creating Awareness” Is Usually A Waste Of Time
  35. Jack Welch’s GE Was The Wrong Model To Take From The 90s. Lou Gerstner’s IBM Is The Right One
  36. Why The Right Way Is Usually The Hard Way
  37. Change Always Involves Strategic Conflict. Here’s How You Build Strategies To Win:
  38. Pundits Love To Blame Bureaucracy. Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Listen To Them:
  39. Want A True Formula For Success? Prepare For Luck.
  40. If You Want To Lead, You Need To Embrace The Basic Human Need For Status
  41. If You’re Serious About Change, You Need To Be Explicit And Focus On Shared Values
  42. Every Revolution Needs To Anticipate Its Own Counterrevolution
  43. We Need To Embrace The Genius Of The Obvious
  44. Why GE’s Incredible Turnaround Could Be A Sign Of The Times
  45. How “True Believers” Can Undermine Change
  46. If You Want To Tell A Compelling Story, Do These 3 Things
  47. We Need To Rethink The Myth Of Macintosh And Xerox PARC
  48. 4 Things That I Learned About Change From The Orange Revolution
  49. Why Truth Matters
  50. 2024: A Pivotal Year

2023 51

  1. Top Posts Of 2023
  2. The 2023 Digital Tonto Reading List
  3. Change Can Come From Anywhere
  4. You Need To Be Skeptical Of Advice From Business Pundits And Gurus. Here’s Why:
  5. Can We Finally Kill The Idea Of Leaderless Organizations?
  6. 3 Stubborn Facts That Business Leaders Need To Accept
  7. To Overcome Resistance To Change, You Need A Strategy, Not A Slogan
  8. Why Is What We Know So Different From What We Do?
  9. Never Underestimate The Power Of Identity
  10. The Stories We Tell Determine The Change We Can Achieve
  11. Why Is There So Much Bullshit?
  12. These 4 Simple Rules Will Make You Exponentially More Effective And Productive
  13. We Need To Take A More Evidence-Based Approach For Transformation And Change
  14. Why VUCA Is (Mostly) A Myth
  15. What Makes A Strategy “Good?”
  16. Make These 3 Cultural Shifts To Reignite Change In Your Organization
  17. If You Want To Innovate, Learn To Say “No”
  18. If You Care About Change, You Need To Learn To Leverage Shared Values. Here’s Why:
  19. It’s Usually Better To Be Careful Than Smart
  20. Happy 14th Birthday Digital Tonto!
  21. We Need To Think Less Like Engineers And More Like Gardeners
  22. Why Business Leaders Need To Learn About Social And Political Movements
  23. Ideas Can Only Be Validated Forward, Never Backward
  24. The 5 Elements Of The Changemaker Mindset
  25. There Are Few Things As Dangerous As A Big Idea Misunderstood
  26. Why Hierarchies Can Outperform Networks (And Vice Versa)
  27. Change Starts With Empathy (Even For Your Enemies). Here’s Why:
  28. 4 Things I’ve Learned About Ideas
  29. Innovation Should Serve People, Not The Other Way Around
  30. Why Change Does NOT Have To Start At The Top
  31. Summer Reading List: 11 Books That Will Help You Navigate the New Age Of AI
  32. Values Always Cost You Something. That’s What Makes Them Different From Platitudes.
  33. Don’t Trust Your Feelings. They’re Often Triggers That Mislead You
  34. 5 Simple Rules That Will Make You A Powerful Communicator
  35. These 3 Myths Kill Transformation And Change
  36. We Need To Stop Fooling Ourselves And Get Our Facts Straight. That Takes Work.
  37. We Expect Humans To Be Accountable. We Should Expect No Less Of AI
  38. Here’s What It Takes To Change Someone’s Mind
  39. How Empathy Can Be Your Secret Weapon
  40. To Build The Technology Of Tomorrow We Need To Create The Ecosystems Today
  41. Change Is Never Simple Or Linear—You Need To Tap Into Networks And Ecosystems
  42. Don’t Try To Shape Opinions, Shape Networks
  43. The Great Digital Reckoning Is Near
  44. 3 Reasons Why Change Fails
  45. We Need To Learn How To Bridge Difference To Drive Creativity And Innovation
  46. We Need To Stop Worshiping Algorithms
  47. Self-Righteousness Is Not A Strategy
  48. 4 Signs Your Industry Is Being Disrupted
  49. The Eden Myth And How Demagogues, Hucksters And Con Artists Use It To Deceive Us
  50. What Will Humans Do In An Artificially Intelligent World?
  51. 2023: Making The Shift From Disruption To Resilience

2022 51

  1. Top Posts of 2022
  2. The 2022 Digital Tonto Reading List
  3. Stop Expecting People To Act Rationally! Here’s Why:
  4. 3 Important Lessons That Monkeys Can Teach Us About Business And Life
  5. Change Is Always About Identity
  6. What You See Is How You’ll Act
  7. Here’s Why Your Big Idea Will Probably Fail To Survive Victory
  8. 3 Ancient Wisdoms We Needed To Leave Behind To Create The Modern World
  9. Strategy Without Purpose Will Always Fail
  10. 3 Strategies To Overcome Resistance To Change
  11. Why Unlearning Is At Least As Important As Learning
  12. This One Simple Scientific Principle Explains Why You Shouldn’t Waste Too Much Time Trying To Convince People
  13. Schwerpunkt: The Killer Strategic Concept You’ve Never Heard Of (But Really Need To Know!)
  14. 3 Reasons Why Business Thinking Is So Consistently Shoddy
  15. Change Isn’t About Persuasion. It’s About Power
  16. Why We’re Better Off Assuming People Are Competent And Hardworking
  17. We Need To Get Back To Counting What Counts
  18. Change Has A lifecycle. You Need To Learn It.
  19. Why The CHIPS Act May Be A Turning Point For Innovation In America
  20. Happy 13th Birthday Digital Tonto!
  21. Why Your Values Determine Your Ability To Compete
  22. When You Face Obstinate Opposition, Don’t Create A Conflict, Create A Dilemma
  23. Why We Need To Put Human Agency Back At The Center Of Decision-Making
  24. Designing Effective Change Tactics Starts With Viable Targets
  25. The Transformative Power Of Purpose
  26. Revolutions Don’t Begin With a Slogan, They Begin With A Cause
  27. 4 Ways Hucksters, Gurus And Consultants Fool Us (And Usually Themselves Too)
  28. Here’s How You Build Transformative Teams
  29. We Need To Stop Cheerleading Change
  30. Summer Reading List: Books That Will Help You Understand The War In Ukraine
  31. Don’t Hate Your Haters, Leverage Them To Your Advantage
  32. Why Smart People Are So Easily Fooled
  33. Good Management Is Not Good Strategy. Here’s What Is:
  34. 4 Reasons Why People Resist Change
  35. We Need To Shift Our Mindsets To Compete In An Ecosystem-Driven World
  36. Leveraging The Power Of Story
  37. It’s Time To Rethink The Change Gospel
  38. Leading Through Uncertainty
  39. We Need To Stop Doubling Down On Bad Ideas
  40. Adopting A Changemaker Mindset
  41. There Are Important Lessons We Should Learn From The War In Ukraine
  42. We’re In For A Decade Of Generational Strife. Here’s How To Navigate It.
  43. Learning From Mistakes Is What Separates Truly Revolutionary Leaders From Everyone Else
  44. 4 Myths That Are Killing Business Today
  45. The Lifecycle of a Breakthrough
  46. Don’t Confuse A Moment With A Movement
  47. We’re In A Trust Crisis. Here’s What We Can Do About It.
  48. Every Changemaker Should Know These 3 Strategies (But Most Don’t)
  49. Why Purpose Matters
  50. How The “Uber Economy” Is Killing Innovation, Prosperity And Entrepreneurship
  51. 2022: Surviving Change

2021 51

  1. Top Posts of 2021
  2. The 2021 Digital Tonto Reading List
  3. Why History Converges And Cascades
  4. How Cultural Competence Makes You More A Effective Leader, Manager and Operator
  5. Change Consultants Recommend You Do These 3 Things. Don’t.
  6. We Need New Skills For A New Era Of Innovation
  7. We Can’t Afford To Just Move Fast And Break Things Anymore
  8. Radical Change Needs A Shared Language
  9. Why We Need To Invest In An Innovation Economy
  10. 3 Management Myths That We Desperately Need To Unlearn
  11. To Achieve Real Change, You Must First Anticipate And Overcome Resistance
  12. Not All Who Wander Are Lost
  13. The Atom, The Bit And The Gene: Silicon Valley’s Innovator’s Dilemma
  14. The “Trigger” Strategy For Driving Radical, Transformational Change
  15. We’re In A Productivity Crisis. We Need To Get Serious About Solving It.
  16. The Economics of Disinformation
  17. 4 Things Every Leader Should Know About Making Decisions (But Most Don’t)
  18. We Are Entering A New Era Of Innovation. Here’s What We Need To Do:
  19. We Don’t Disrupt Industries Anymore, We Disrupt People
  20. Happy 12th Birthday Digital Tonto!
  21. It’s Time To Admit We Were Wrong About What Was Supposed To Drive The 21st Century
  22. Anyone Can Have A Vision. Building Competence Is Often More Important
  23. How To Prepare Your Organization For Transformation In A Post-COVID World
  24. The Truth About Automation, Jobs And Prosperity
  25. 4 Things Every Business Leader Should Know (But Most Don’t)
  26. Why Change Fails
  27. Innovating For The Long Term
  28. We’ve Screwed Up Capitalism, Technology And Healthcare. It’s Time To Admit It And Do Better.
  29. To Truly Change The World, You First Must Learn Something About It
  30. Summer Reading List: 16 Books That Will Help You Understand The Next Decade
  31. The 2020s Will Be An Era Of Atoms, Not Bits
  32. Why Change Management Has To Change
  33. Innovating, Fast And Slow
  34. How To Compete In A New Era Of Innovation
  35. Some Can Transform Themselves. Others Can’t. Here’s What Makes The Difference:
  36. Revealing, Building And Emerging: We Need To Take A More Biological View Of Technology
  37. The Digital Era Is Over. Long Live Innovation!
  38. There Will Always Be People Who Want To Kill Change. Here’s How To Outsmart Them
  39. 4 Things Companies Need To Build An Innovation Ecosystem
  40. The Eerie Parallels Between the 1920s And Today Should Worry Us
  41. The 5 Immutable Laws Of Change
  42. Don’t Believe Everything You Think!
  43. To Create Real Change That Lasts, Start With A Majority
  44. These 4 Paradigm Shifts Will Define The Next Decade
  45. We Are Beset With Conspiracy Theories. Here’s How To Fix It.
  46. We Need To Get Off The Silicon Valley Doomsday Machine
  47. Why You Need To Build Change On Common Ground
  48. The Humility Principle
  49. Why Good Ideas Fail (And How To Help Yours Succeed)
  50. Innovation Needs Constraints
  51. 2021: What Comes After Covid?

2020 51

  1. Top Posts Of 2020
  2. The 2020 Digital Tonto Reading List
  3. The 4 Key Attributes Of Transformational Leaders
  4. Innovation Isn’t Just About What You Know, It’s About Who You Talk To
  5. We Need To Rethink Agility For The Post-Digital Age
  6. 10 Principles for Transformational Change
  7. The Dignity Economy
  8. What We Can Learn From The Failure Of Quibi
  9. We Thought Technology Would Solve Our Problems. Instead, They Got Worse
  10. How Revolutions Fail
  11. We Need To Finally Break Free Of The Engineering Mindset
  12. What’s Killing Capitalism In America?
  13. We Need To Rethink The Future Of Technology
  14. 5 Myths That Kill Transformation And Change
  15. Why We Need To Ask Stupid Questions
  16. America’s Innovation Ecosystem Needs To Innovate Itself
  17. Why Consensus Kills Innovation
  18. Strategy In A Post-Digital World
  19. How To Design Your Organization For Transformation
  20. Happy 11th Birthday Digital Tonto!
  21. We Need To Unlock The Power Of Cause And Effect
  22. 4 Lessons We Can Learn From The Digital Revolution
  23. Why Innovation Takes More Than Genius
  24. To Drive Change Forward, You First Need To Build A Shared Purpose. Here’s How:
  25. Summer Reading List: 9 Books That Will Help You Understand The Covid Crisis
  26. How To Leverage Opposition To Your Advantage And Drive Change Forward
  27. How Inflection Points Define History
  28. What Transformational Leaders Learn From Their Darkest Moments
  29. The Last Thing America Needs Right Now Is A Vision
  30. How Covid-19 Has Unmasked Us
  31. How To Spot Hucksters And Frauds
  32. We’ve Been Getting The Wrong Answers Because We’ve Been Asking The Wrong Questions
  33. The Psychology Behind Coronavirus Denial
  34. The Coronavirus Crisis Shows Why, If We Are To Solve Big Problems, We First Need To Rebuild Trust
  35. How To Overcome Resistance To Change
  36. We Need To Start Investing In Resilience
  37. Do You Want To Make A Point Or Do You Want To Make A Difference?
  38. Why We Need Experts
  39. How To Lead Through Crisis
  40. We Need To Prepare For Future Crises Like We Prepare For War
  41. How Transformational Leaders Learn To Overcome Failure
  42. When Pundits Say That Robots Will Take Our Jobs, Remember These 4 Things
  43. Politicians Like To Talk About Innovation. Here Are 3 Things They Should Actually Be Doing About It
  44. How To Create Change That Lasts
  45. As Our Technology Becomes Infinitely More Powerful, We Are Entering A New Ethical Universe
  46. Why Software Won’t Eat The World
  47. The Hard Thing About Hard Facts
  48. Why We Fail To Plan For The Future
  49. Why Fears About China Are, Mostly, Overblown
  50. What Amazon’s Entrance Tells Us About The New Era Of Quantum Computing
  51. 2020: A Decade To Rediscover Our Humanity

2019 80

  1. Top Posts of 2019
  2. The 2019 Digital Tonto Reading List
  3. The Truth Behind Netflix’s Incredible Success
  4. Technology And Globalization Have Failed Us
  5. Why Business Strategy Shouldn’t Be “Scientific”
  6. 4 Things To Know About How Technology Will Evolve Over The Next Decade
  7. How Artificial Intelligence Is Forcing Us To Answer Some Very Human Questions
  8. How True Revolutions Are Made
  9. The Business Of Being Human
  10. What Google’s Quantum Supremacy Means For The Future
  11. The WeWork Debacle Is Just A Symptom Of A Much Larger Problem
  12. The Power Of A Question
  13. Is This Our New Sputnik Moment?
  14. The Digital Revolution Is Ending. Here’s What You Need To Do Now:
  15. Why Change Management So Often Fails
  16. What I Learned Solving A Business Crises
  17. The Myth Of Shareholder Value
  18. Are We Turning Our Backs On Science?
  19. Happy 10th Birthday Digital Tonto!
  20. How Networks Drive Transformation
  21. 4 Questions That Will Make You A Better Innovator
  22. Why You Should Learn To Love Your Haters
  23. What To Do When Your Startup Stops Feeling Like A Family
  24. As The Original Moonshot Turns 50, We Still Need Public Support For Innovation
  25. 4 Things Every Business Leader Should Know About Artificial Intelligence and Automation
  26. True Transformation Isn’t Top-Down Or Bottom-Up, But Side-To-Side
  27. Why Intel Sees Its Future In Heterogeneous Computing
  28. The Limited Value Of Ideas
  29. These 3 Cognitive Biases Can Kill Innovation
  30. Even The Most Radical Visions Can Succeed, If They Are Built On Shared Values
  31. How IBM Is Driving The Future Of Blockchain
  32. Let’s Face Facts, The Digital Revolution Has Been A Huge Disappointment
  33. 4 Things Business Leaders Can Learn About Transformation From Social And Political Movements
  34. These 4 Major Shifts Will Drive The 21st Century
  35. Why Most Corporate Innovation Programs Fail (And How To Make Them Succeed)
  36. We Need To Build An Innovation Economy For The 21st Century
  37. How To Build An Ecosystem Strategy
  38. Here’s Why The Robots Won’t Really Take Over
  39. Why Writing May Be The Most Important Skill Your Kids Need To Learn For The Future
  40. Summer Reading List: 17 Books That Will Inspire You To Change The World
  41. Here’s What Most People Get Wrong About Minimum Viable Products
  42. The Gladwell Trap
  43. If You Want To Network Your Organization, Avoid These 4 Myths
  44. Is Artificial Intelligence The New Productivity Paradox?
  45. Why Corporate Transformations Fail So Consistently (And How To Fix It)
  46. The Eureka Moment Myth
  47. This Small Startup Is Building The Tools That May Power The Quantum Era
  48. Here’s What Pundits Who “Predict” The Future Always Seem to Get Wrong
  49. How Experian’s Networked Culture Drives Innovation
  50. When Should You Collaborate and When Should You Compete?
  51. Here’s What You Really Need To Know About Quantum Computing
  52. Here’s How We’re Killing Innovation In America
  53. 4 Things That All Managers Should Know About Digital Transformation (But Most Don’t)
  54. Here’s What You Need To Know To Compete In An Ecosystem Driven World
  55. Why Losing Amazon’s HQ2 Might Not Be So Bad For New York After All
  56. We Need To Stop Glorifying Failure. Here’s What To Do Instead
  57. 4 Myths About Empowering Change
  58. It’s Ecosystems, Not Inventions That Truly Change the World
  59. To Drive Innovation, We Need To Hire For Diversity And Empathy
  60. 4 Ways To Empower Change In Your Organization
  61. IBM Is Building A Network To Drive The Future Of Quantum Computing
  62. Before You Set Out to Transform Your Organization, You First Need to Build Trust
  63. How Artificial Intelligence Is Making The Shift From System To Ecosystem
  64. It’s Not Enough To Drive Change, You Also Have To Survive Victory
  65. IBM’s 2019 “5 in 5” Predictions Point To A New Era Of Innovation
  66. Big Companies Shouldn’t Try To Act Like Startups. Here’s Why
  67. The DotCom Bust Could Have Killed O’Reilly Media, But It Learned To Reinvent Its Business Model And Built A New Future
  68. These Are The 3 Technology Inflection Points That Will Change The Future
  69. How Red Hat Helped Make Open Source A Global Phenomenon
  70. Transformation Is Always A Journey, Never A Destination
  71. How Great Companies Empower Creativity
  72. The Little Known Event that Made Einstein a Legendary Icon
  73. Intel Has Figured Out How To Compute In 3 Dimensions And It Could Put The Company Back On Top
  74. How Science Fiction Becomes Innovation Reality
  75. How IBM Sees The Future Of Artificial Intelligence
  76. Business Pundits Love To Say These 4 Things — None Of Them Are True
  77. How Google Partners With The World’s Top Minds To Power Its Innovation Machine
  78. If You Want To Change The World, You Need To Start With Small Groups, Loosely Connected But United By A Shared Purpose
  79. Materials Science May Be The Most Important Technology Of The Next Decade. Here’s Why:
  80. 2019: The Return Of The Large Enterprise

2018 100

  1. Top Posts of 2018
  2. The 2018 Digital Tonto Reading List
  3. The Synthetic Biology Revolution Is Now Moving At Full Steam
  4. How To Create Something Truly Original
  5. General Stanley McChrystal Speaks Out On Why We Need To Redefine Leadership
  6. Why We Need More Women In Innovation
  7. Digital Transformation Is Human Transformation
  8. When Innovation Goes Wrong, We Shouldn’t Blame Technology, But Ourselves
  9. How Trust Can Be A Competitive Advantage
  10. Value Never Actually Disappears, It Just Shifts From One Place To Another
  11. How Experian’s Digital Transformation Brought Its Business To An Entirely New Level
  12. Surviving Victory
  13. Why The Biggest Breakthroughs Often Come From The Quiet Geniuses
  14. If You Want To Change The World, You Need To Start With A Keystone Change
  15. Why The Next Big Thing Is Never Turns Out Like You Think It Will
  16. How IBM, Google And Amazon Innovate Differently
  17. How To Prepare Your Kids For a Post-Digital Age
  18. Pundits Say You Should Find Your Tribe. Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Listen To Them
  19. Data Storage Is Becoming A Massive Problem, DNA May Be The Answer
  20. What’s Next For Steve Blank And The Lean Startup?
  21. 4 Principles Of Digital Transformation
  22. How Amazon Innovates
  23. How To Prepare Your Organization For Innovation
  24. How Connection Drives Innovation
  25. How One Organization Created A Movement That Transformed Healthcare
  26. The Retail Business Is Dead. Long Live The Retail Business!
  27. This Little Known Program At The Department Of Energy Is Helping To Create A New Future In Manufacturing
  28. We Need To Reengineer Our Organizations For A New Era Of Innovation
  29. 4 Things You Need To Know About Big Data And Artificial Intelligence
  30. These Are The Biggest Innovation Challenges We Must Solve Over The Next Decade
  31. Here’s How Investors Are Adapting To The New Era Of Innovation
  32. How Virtual Reality Will Drive The Future Of Business
  33. 4 Things To Know Before You Move Your Business To The Cloud
  34. What The Best Innovators Do Differently
  35. Why Debate Is The Next Frontier In Artificial Intelligence
  36. 4 Things Nobody Ever Tells You About Innovation
  37. How To Pursue A Grand Challenge In 3 (Not So Easy) Steps
  38. Today, You Need More Than A Market Strategy, You Need An Ecosystem Strategy
  39. Here’s What You Really Need To Know About Blockchain
  40. Happy 9th Birthday Digital Tonto!
  41. It’s Time To Be Skeptical About The Lean Startup. Here’s Why:
  42. There Are 3 Ways To Innovate, But Only One Can Win The Future
  43. Most AI Projects Fail. Here’s How To Make Yours Successful
  44. Why The Future Is Not Digital
  45. This Army Colonel Is Helping Large Enterprises Innovate Like Lean Startups
  46. How Blockbuster, Kodak And Xerox Really Failed (It’s Not What You Think)
  47. We May Finally Be Winning The War Against Cybercrime. Here’s How:
  48. The Semmelweis Myth And Why It’s Not Really True
  49. 5 Things Managers Should Know About Innovation (But Most Don’t)
  50. Summer Reading List: 12 Great Stories About History’s Most Legendary Innovators
  51. Marketers Need To Start Preparing For The End Of The Digital Age And The New Era Of Innovation
  52. Becoming A Successful Executive Doesn’t Prepare You To Innovate
  53. 3 Startups That Are Defying The Odds And Bringing Breakthrough Discoveries To Market
  54. Here’s Why No One Cares About Your Ideas
  55. We Need Real Scientific Breakthroughs To Build A Clean Energy Economy
  56. An Open Letter To The NFL Anthem Protestors
  57. Artificial Intelligence Needs Conversational Intelligence. Here’s Why:
  58. We Need To Revive Innovation And Entrepreneurship In America. Here’s How We Can Make It Happen
  59. 3 Social Entrepreneurs That Are Changing The World From The Bottom Up
  60. Real Businesses Have Real Assets
  61. Here’s Why It’s So Hard To Bring Science To Market
  62. If You Don’t Explore, You Won’t Invent And You Will Be Disrupted
  63. The Future Of Software Is No Code
  64. The Truth About Diversity
  65. Innovation “Gurus” Love To Talk About These 4 Myths — None Of Them Are True
  66. How Mental Models Drive Strategy, Often For The Worse
  67. It’s Not Just Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, The Internet Is Broken, But We Can Fix It
  68. We Need To Rethink Innovation For The 21st Century
  69. Great Leaders Learn To Shift Their Mindset
  70. Why The “March For Our Lives” Kids Are Succeeding Where So Many Others Have Failed
  71. Here’s How To Keep Your Data Project From Running Of The Rails
  72. The Silicon Valley Myth
  73. IBM’s “5 in 5” Highlights Secure Digital Solutions For The Physical World
  74. Why The Future Will Always Surprise Us
  75. Here’s What Our Quantum Future Will Look Like
  76. How GE Got Disrupted
  77. How To Win In The New Era Of Innovation
  78. America Can Win Manufacturing In The 21st Century. Here’s How:
  79. 4 Rules For Building An Innovative Culture
  80. Why Most Technologies Move Slower Today
  81. How IBM Is Preparing The Enterprise For The Cognitive Age
  82. The Silver Bullet Myth
  83. How To Solve A Really Tough Problem In 3 (Not So Easy) Steps
  84. How Gandhi Would Lead Us Toward An AI Future
  85. The Hair-On-Fire Use Case
  86. Innovation Isn’t About What You Know, But What You Don’t
  87. The Power Of Asking Why
  88. Here’s How We Can Make The Next Big Thing Happen Much Faster
  89. 4 Things Every Leader Should Know About Applying Artificial Intelligence To Business
  90. #MonkeyFirst Innovation
  91. Silicon Valley Can’t Build The Future Alone
  92. We Have Learn To Embrace Uncertainty And Confusion
  93. Anatomy Of A Breakthrough
  94. We Need To Invite More Disruption and Messiness Into Our Lives — Here’s Why:
  95. This Startup Is Leveraging Decades Of Pollution To Help Build a Clean Energy Future
  96. Start With The “Why Not?”
  97. A 270 Year Old Mathematical Formula Can Teach Us A Lot About Innovation
  98. Everybody Should Be Pursuing A Grand Challenge — Here’s Why:
  99. The 70-20-10 Rule
  100. 2018: The Shift To A New Era Of Innovation

2017 102

  1. Top Posts of 2017
  2. The 2017 Digital Tonto Reading List
  3. 4 Skills That All Great Innovators Share
  4. We Need To Focus More On Networks And Less On Nodes
  5. When Corporations Fund Startups, Both Can Win
  6. A True Transformation Takes More Than Ideas
  7. 3 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Bet Your Business On A Platform
  8. The Next Great Transformation Will Be From Bits To Atoms
  9. Data Bias Is Becoming A Massive Problem
  10. You Can Never Build The Future By Looking To The Past
  11. Every Business Today Needs To Prepare For An AI-Driven World. Here’s How:
  12. Yes, The Inmates Really Do Run The Asylum
  13. Don’t Be Fooled By These 3 Overhyped Trends
  14. To Solve Complex Problems, You Need A Networked Solution
  15. 4 Things Leaders Need To Close The Gap Between Aspiration And Innovation
  16. Here’s How You Know Your Industry Is About To Be Disrupted
  17. 3 Simple Things You Can Do To Improve Data Security and Performance
  18. The Platform Fallacy
  19. Here’s Why Even Successful Companies Find It Hard To Innovate In New Markets
  20. You Can’t Change Fundamental Behaviors Without Changing Fundamental Beliefs
  21. Innovation Isn’t About What You Control, But What You Can Access
  22. Don’t Bet On Someone Else’s Success Story
  23. What Will We Do After Moore’s Law Ends?
  24. Don’t Break Down Silos, Connect Them
  25. 4 Innovation Mistakes That You Really Need To Avoid
  26. Here’s What We Can Learn From The Bankruptcy At Toys “R” Us
  27. The Quantum Age Is Almost Upon Us We And Need To Start Taking It Seriously
  28. Building A Network To Solve Education
  29. How To Stop Worrying And Learn To Love The Retail Apocalypse
  30. Don’t Worry About People Stealing Your Ideas
  31. Build For The Few And Not The Many
  32. Designing Workspaces To Solve Problems
  33. This Company Is Combining Big Data and Materials Science to Revolutionize Manufacturing
  34. The Physics of Change
  35. Innovation Is Never 1 Thing (Actually It’s 3 Things)
  36. Social Movements Can Teach Us A Lot About What It Takes To Build A Business
  37. Amazon’s Purchase Of Whole Foods Shows Why Every Industry Needs An Ecosystem
  38. Happy 8th Birthday Digital Tonto!
  39. Is It Time To Rethink The Scientific Method?
  40. 4 Things Gandhi Can Teach Us About Transformational Change
  41. Stop Complaining About Meetings And Start Making Them More Effective
  42. No Innovation Strategy Fits Every Problem, So You Need To Work With Full Toolbox
  43. 3 Technologies You Need To Start Paying Attention To Right Now
  44. Can America Win The New Century?
  45. 4 Myths About Innovation That “Gurus” Love To Tell
  46. Why You Need To Understand Noah Effects And Joseph Effects
  47. How Idle Chatter And Gossip Can Make You More Productive
  48. We All Need To Prepare For A New Era Of Innovation
  49. IBM Is Using The Crowd To Help Advance Its Quantum Computer
  50. Summer Reading List: 12 Books To Read On Your Way To A Revolution
  51. Entrepreneurship Can Get Even Better The Second Time Around
  52. Generosity Can Be A Competitive Advantage
  53. Is Big Data Doing More Harm Than Good?
  54. Here’s Why Your Innovation Strategy Will Fail
  55. Innovation Programs In Schools Can Help Kids Learn More Than Just Facts
  56. What I Learned From Breaking Out Of My Comfort Zone
  57. Retail Isn’t Dead, But It Does Need To Adapt
  58. All Great Innovators Have One Thing In Common — They Stick It Out
  59. This Tight-Knit Family Built A Star Trek Style Tricorder and Won An XPRIZE
  60. Innovation Needs Communication
  61. Here’s How Technology Can Help Solve The Black Swan Problem
  62. 4 Things We Can Still Learn From Albert Einstein
  63. Truly Great Innovators Do These 4 Things
  64. This Is How Your Business Will Be Disrupted
  65. 4 Innovation Lessons From Charles Darwin
  66. The New Era Of Mass Collaboration
  67. The Internet Of Things Is Transforming Industries You Would Never Think Of
  68. How To Be A World Class Performer In Anything You Set Your Mind To
  69. We Need To Educate Kids For The Future, Not The Past. Here’s How:
  70. Don’t Look For A Great Idea, Find A Good Problem
  71. 4 Things Every Entrepreneur Should Know Going In
  72. These 3 Technological Forces That Are Changing The Nature Of Work
  73. How Open Data for Science Will Change How Businesses Compete
  74. Inside The Race To Build A Battery That Can Power The 21st Century
  75. The 3 Things You Need to Build an All Star Team
  76. How To Compete And Win In An Automated Age
  77. Here’s How Technology Will Shape Marketing Over The Next Decade
  78. We Need To Stop Trying To Predict The Future And Start Exploring It
  79. How Every Industry Can Learn From The Open Source Movement
  80. The Future Of Robots Is All Too Human
  81. The Lean Startup Is Now Helping To Transform Government Funded Science Into Real Businesses
  82. How To Create Transformational Change, According To The World’s Most Successful Social Movements
  83. How Even Small Businesses Can Access World Class Scientific Research
  84. Here’s Why You Should Think Twice Before Listening To Business Gurus
  85. If You Want To Innovate, Avoid These Myths
  86. Technology’s Moral Crisis
  87. 4 Things You Need To Build An Innovative Culture
  88. Here’s What’s Wrong With Your Great Idea
  89. Why IBM Bets On Patents
  90. The “Next Big Thing” Always Starts Out Looking Like Nothing At All
  91. Data And Technology Don’t Change Your Culture, They Reveal it
  92. Innovation Is Combination
  93. America Isn’t Out Of Ideas. In Fact, A New Era Of Innovation Is About To Begin
  94. To Create Real Change, You Need To Do More Than Just Protest
  95. Over The Next 5 Years, IBM Sees Atoms Fusing With Bits To Create New Insights
  96. 5 Things I Learned From Managing People
  97. The 3 Things About Data You Probably Don’t Know, But Need To
  98. We Too Often Ignore The Tradeoff Between Innovation And Optimization
  99. How The Cloud Is Helping Small Businesses Compete With The Big Guys
  100. The 30 Years Rule – Innovation Takes A Lot Longer Than You Think
  101. Quantum Encryption Is Coming Sooner Than You Think. The Time To Prepare Is Now
  102. 2017: Collaboration Is No Longer A Choice, But An Imperative

2016 102

  1. Top Posts of 2016
  2. The 2016 Digital Tonto Reading List
  3. What President Trump Could Do To Advance Innovation
  4. Let’s Not “Yada Yada” Innovation
  5. How Brands Can Become Great Storytellers
  6. How Successful Movements Inspire Lasting Change
  7. Today, Every Business Must Transform Itself Into A Platform
  8. Cargo Cult Strategy
  9. Now, Anyone Who Wants Can Access The World’s Most Advanced Technology
  10. Can We Teach Algorithms Right From Wrong?
  11. How To Read (And Watch) The News
  12. The Most Important Thing That Great Innovators Do Differently
  13. What’s Wrong with Apple?
  14. The Productivity Problem
  15. Why Do Some Technologies Just Never Seem To Die?
  16. Great Companies Don’t Adapt, They Prepare
  17. 4 Lessons Every Leader Needs To Learn
  18. Innovation Needs Exploration
  19. Platforms Are Transforming How We Need To Compete
  20. The Lean Startup Is Doing More Than Transforming Business, It’s Changing The World
  21. Here’s How Quantum Computing Will Change The World
  22. Stories Are Important, We Should Get Them Right
  23. 4 Ways Every Business Needs To Use Artificial Intelligence
  24. Why Open Beats Closed
  25. We Need 21st Century Solutions For 21st Century Problems
  26. 6 Things Great Innovators Do Differently
  27. The Growing Rivalry Between Google And IBM
  28. Seek Simplicity, But Distrust It
  29. 4 Things Managers Need To Know About Data
  30. How Platforms Access Ecosystems
  31. How IBM Is Building A Business Around Watson
  32. Innovation Needs To Shift From Disrupting Markets To Tackling Grand Challenges
  33. How Lean Startup Techniques Can Work Even Better For Established Businesses
  34. 4 Things We Need To Do To Boost Innovation And Entrepreneurship
  35. The Future Of Robots
  36. We Need To Switch Our Mental Models From Hierarchies To Networks
  37. 5 Technologies for 2031
  38. A New Era Of Innovation
  39. This Children’s Hospital In Dallas Is Reimagining The Healthcare Business Model
  40. Happy 7th Birthday Digital Tonto!
  41. 4 Things Brands Need To Know About Storytelling
  42. The Very Strange—And Fascinating— Ideas Behind Quantum Computing
  43. Here’s Why Google Is Open-Sourcing Some Of Its Most Important Technology
  44. 5 Things I’ve Learned About Creativity
  45. A Look Inside Four Decades Of Breakthroughs At IBM Research
  46. A New Breed Of Innovation
  47. 4 Things Publishers Need To Know To Compete In The Digital Age
  48. The Inside Story Behind A Miracle Cure
  49. America’s Distinctive Brand Of Change
  50. Summer Reading List: 17 Great Books Every Innovator Should Read
  51. The Data Delusion
  52. Managing With A Soul
  53. If Big Data Is To Live Up To Its Promise, We Need To Fix Our Data Systems
  54. It Takes A Lot More Than A Big Idea To Change The World
  55. The Science Behind Bernie Sanders Failed Movement, Explained
  56. How Google Innovates
  57. 3 Reasons To Believe The Singularity Is Near
  58. The Yin And Yang Of Elon Musk
  59. Apple Is Not The Next Blackberry, It’s The Next Toyota
  60. Dare To Be Crap
  61. Bitcoin May Not Survive, But The Technology Behind It Will Live On
  62. These 4 Major Paradigm Shifts Will Transform The Future Of Technology
  63. Cloud Computing Just Entered Totally New Territory
  64. There Is No One True Path To Innovation
  65. How Experian Built A Business Around Data
  66. We Need To Stop Searching For The One Magical Thing Can Make A Business Successful
  67. Why 2020 Is Shaping Up To Be A Pivotal Year
  68. The Problems Of Progress
  69. How Smart Businesses Are Turning Academic Research Into Profits
  70. Innovation Starts—And Ends—With Mindset
  71. The 3 Big Technologies To Watch Over The Next Decade—Genomics, Nanotechnology and Robotics
  72. Beware Of Simple Rules And Slogans—They Can Kill Your Business
  73. IBM Has Created A Revolutionary New Model For Computing—The Human Brain
  74. How Innovation Really Happens
  75. Why Energy Storage May Be The Most Important Technology In The World Right Now
  76. The One Big Reason Every Business Needs To Embrace Complexity
  77. Why Your Brilliant Content Strategy Doesn’t Stand A Chance
  78. Is Digital Technology Really Making Us Any Better Off?
  79. 3 Paradigm Shifts That Will Drive How We Compete In The 21st Century
  80. Why We Seem To Be Talking More And Working Less—The Nature Of Work Has Changed
  81. The 4 Mindset Shifts Marketers Need To Make Now
  82. To Adapt, We Need To Evolve
  83. The Science Behind Political Correctness, Explained
  84. The 9 Rules Of Innovation
  85. Moore’s Law Will Soon End, But Progress Doesn’t Have To
  86. The Goliath Advantage
  87. The Biggest Problems Facing The World Aren’t What You Think—And They Will Require Collective Solutions
  88. We Need To Change The Way We Think About Technology
  89. The Business Model Is The Message
  90. The Genius Of Recognizing Genius
  91. The Technology Behind Hillary Clinton’s Email Scandal, Explained
  92. How IBM Innovates
  93. Why No One Is Reading Your Marketing Content
  94. Manage For Mission, Not For Metrics
  95. We Need To Accelerate Innovation—Here’s How:
  96. The Power Of Focus
  97. Marketers Need To Shift From Collecting Eyeballs To Building Interfaces
  98. The One Thing Nobody Ever Tells You About What It Takes To Succeed
  99. The Debate Between The US Government And The Tech Industry About Encryption, Explained
  100. We Need To Innovate The Innovation Process
  101. Don’t Let Your Marketing Ruin Your Content
  102. 3 Big Things To Look Out For In 2016

2015 101

  1. The 2015 Digital Tonto Reading List
  2. Top Posts of 2015
  3. Collaboration Is The New Competitive Advantage
  4. How To Define Your Organization’s Values
  5. Innovation Is The Only True Way To Create Value
  6. Politicians Want To Shut Down The Department Of Energy. Here’s Why That’s A Really Bad Idea:
  7. The Open Economy
  8. Marketers Need To Shift From Crafting Messages To Creating Experiences
  9. Why Organizations Fail
  10. How Ebay’s Spinoff Of PayPal Can Be A Model For Crisis Management
  11. Why Social Skills Are Trumping Cognitive Skills
  12. Content Is Crap And Other Rules For Marketers
  13. What Should We Do When The Government Makes And Industry Takes?
  14. How To Decide Whether Holacracy Is Right For You
  15. How I Learned To Hack
  16. Joe Biden Is Right. It’s Time for A Moonshot For Cancer
  17. Why We Fail To Adapt
  18. Marketers Need To Rethink The Customer Decision Journey
  19. Culture Isn’t Everything
  20. 4 Questions Every Business Needs To Answer
  21. The Myth Of The Heroic Leader
  22. The Downside Of Data
  23. 4 Visionaries Who Saw Far Into The Future And How They Did It
  24. We Need To Stop Chasing The Last Big Thing And Start Preparing For the Next One
  25. The Shift Economy
  26. The Best Way To Innovate Is To Do It With Purpose
  27. The Story Of Technology
  28. We Don’t Need The Best People, We Need The Best Teams
  29. What Marketers Can Learn From The Civil Rights Movement
  30. 3 Things That Will Eventually Kill Your Business
  31. Why Business Defies Logic
  32. Here’s How We Can Win The Race To Cure Cancer
  33. The Power Of Story
  34. How The Collapse Of The Cable Business Model Will Bring A New Era Of Television
  35. Despite The Headlines, The Future Has Never Been Brighter
  36. How To Build Trust, Even With Your Enemies
  37. The Efficiency Paradox
  38. How To Build An Effective Culture
  39. Happy 6th Birthday Digital Tonto!
  40. How Philosophy Can Make You A Better Manager
  41. Innovation Is Never A Single Event
  42. How IBM Learned To Love Open Technology
  43. The Physics Of Disruption
  44. 4 Things You Should Know About Networked Organizations
  45. The Clothesline Paradox
  46. How I Cut The Cable (And How You Can Too!)
  47. How America Became Exceptional
  48. 4 Simple Rules That Will Make You A Better Writer
  49. Leaders Must Do More Than Inspire—We Must Shape Networks
  50. A New Era For Data
  51. How The Impossible Becomes Possible
  52. Effective Feedback: The Little Known Secret To Pixar’s Creative Success
  53. Good Disruption / Bad Disruption
  54. Can America Renew Its Commitment To Science?
  55. How Numbers Lie
  56. The Future Of TV Is Here. Can Cable Survive?
  57. Summer Reading List: Big Ideas Explained Simply
  58. To Prepare For The Future You Need To Shape It—Or Someone Else Will
  59. Why Some Movements Succeed And Others Fail
  60. 4 Things You Should Know About Platforms
  61. The Uncertainty Problem
  62. Why Stock Buybacks Are Good For The Economy And Country
  63. The Revolution Will Not Be Centralized
  64. How To Balance Push And Pull Marketing
  65. The Problem With Patterns
  66. Why The Cloud Will Be Like The PC All Over Again
  67. How To Outsmart The Crowd
  68. How One Woman Is Working To Transform The Healthcare System From Within
  69. The Tony Soprano Problem
  70. How IBM Plans To Help Reinvent The Modern Corporation
  71. The Real Capitalist’s Dilemma
  72. If Journalism Is Going To Survive As A Business, We Need To Rethink The Chinese Wall
  73. How Power Is Shifting From Corporations To Platforms
  74. Why Isn’t What’s Good For Microsoft Good For The Country?
  75. The Art Of The Shift
  76. The Science Behind Better Networking
  77. How PARC Saved Xerox
  78. 4 Innovation Lessons From The History Of Warfare
  79. Why Big Organizations Are Broken
  80. The Big Marketing Shift
  81. Is Your Platform Burning?
  82. 3 Things That Can Stall Innovation (And How To Overcome Them)
  83. The One Thing That Can Transform An Idea Into A Phenomenon
  84. We Need To Innovate The Science Business Model
  85. The End of Power?
  86. 6 Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Started Managing People
  87. Where To Look For The Next Big Thing
  88. The Energy Revolution Will Transform How We Live and Work
  89. How Communication Drives Innovation
  90. Everybody Is Looking For The Secret To Success. Unfortunately, Many Chase Unicorns Instead.
  91. The Access Economy
  92. Tim Cook Is No Steve Jobs… And That May Be A Good Thing
  93. Why Smart Companies Put People First
  94. Here’s What Killed The British Technology Industry
  95. The New Age Of Platforms
  96. How Google Attacks Problems—Not People
  97. The War On Science
  98. Why Games Might Be The Next Big Thing In Education
  99. 5 Business Lessons From The Debacle At The New Republic
  100. 5 Reasons To Be Optimistic About The Future
  101. 2015: The Year The Cloud Bursts

2014 103

  1. Top Posts for 2014
  2. The 2014 Digital Tonto Reading List
  3. The Unlikely Marriage Between Apple and IBM
  4. The Social Tax: Why Firms That Ignore Social Engagement Pay A Heavy Price
  5. Let’s Face It, We Don’t Really Care About Privacy
  6. The Synchronized Organization
  7. Could Ukraine Be The Next Silicon Valley?
  8. The Truth About Foxcatcher
  9. Why It Doesn’t Matter If Consumers Are Willing To Pay For Content
  10. Sometimes Being Wrong Can Be More Valuable Than Being Right
  11. Disruption Can Be Beat: How A Small Radio Shop Found Itself At The Center Of The Internet Of Things
  12. The Future Of Money
  13. What Makes A Viral Hit?
  14. You Can Only Win The Future If You Invest In It
  15. 4 Management Lessons From Philadelphia Eagles Coach Chip Kelly
  16. How To Create A Movement Within Your Organization
  17. The Very Strange Politics of Silicon Valley
  18. Today, Strategy Must Take Into Account New Sources Of Power
  19. How to Combine Marketing Tech With Marketing Guts
  20. How The Future Is Really Built
  21. Publishers Must Learn To Innovate Their Business Models
  22. What To Do While You’re Waiting For Steve Jobs
  23. Peter Thiel’s 4 Rules For Creating A Great Business
  24. What’s Wrong With The Internet?
  25. 4 Reasons To Kill Influencer Marketing
  26. Who Needs Paper Route When You Can Start A Robotics Company?
  27. Why Your Social Strategy Is Broken And How To Fix It
  28. A Look Back At Why Blockbuster Really Failed And Why It Didn’t Have To
  29. Why Some Content Marketers Succeed When Others Fail
  30. How Your Mission Drives Your Strategy
  31. Design Is Eating The World
  32. Don’t Embrace Failure, Transcend It
  33. 5 Things Marketers Should Know But Usually Don’t
  34. How We Should Prepare Our Kids For The Future
  35. Publishing Is Dead? Hardly…
  36. Where Original Ideas Come From
  37. How Wells Fargo Learned To Innovate Around the Customer
  38. How To Transform Your Brand Into A Movement
  39. The New Digital Battlefields
  40. Happy 5th Birthday Digital Tonto!
  41. How To Stop Failing At Content Marketing
  42. Why Do Businesses Today Need To Be Creative?
  43. 4 Ways To Beat Disruptive Innovation
  44. How Data Will Transform Science
  45. Why Best Practices Can Lead To Better Innovation
  46. Don’t Chase Unicorns
  47. 3 Things You Should Know The Network Economy
  48. The Logic of Code
  49. Transformation Starts With Data
  50. Even In An Age of Uncertainty, Managers Still Must Decide
  51. What Tim Geithner Can Teach Us About Dealing With A Crisis
  52. Is Disruption Dead?
  53. How To Manage The Skills Gap
  54. How To Create A Culture Of Change
  55. 4 Content Marketing Myths
  56. Strategy In A Networked World
  57. The Problem With Data Journalism
  58. How A Genius Thinks
  59. 5 Ways Managers Fail Their Employees
  60. To Create Real Change, Leadership Is More Important Than Authority
  61. Here’s What’s Really Holding Back The New York Times
  62. Summer Reading List: Books That Explain The Future
  63. Why Energy Is Technology’s Next Big Thing
  64. Content Is Crap
  65. 5 Business Secrets You Probably Never Thought Of
  66. Why Your Business Model Will Fail
  67. How Ad Agencies Can Avoid A Death Spiral
  68. The Problem Isn’t The Robots, It’s Us
  69. If You’re Serious About Content, You Need To Start Thinking Like A Publisher
  70. The New Role Of Leaders
  71. Are You Using Data To Analyze The Past Or To Create A New Future?
  72. Talent Is Overrated
  73. How To Make Your Digital Business Succeed
  74. Why Atoms Are The New Bits
  75. If We Are Going To Compete For The Future, We Need To Do These 6 Things
  76. Managing For Disruption
  77. Who’s Afraid Of Nate Silver?
  78. 6 Things You Should Know About The Future
  79. How Technology Can Save Government
  80. Why Managers Now Need To Become Leaders
  81. Now, Highly Paid Consultants Are Getting Disrupted Too
  82. Strategy Is No Longer A Game Of Chess
  83. If You Want To Avoid Being Replaced By A Robot, Here’s What You Need To Know
  84. How To Innovate Your Business Model In 5 (Not So Easy) Steps
  85. The New Science Of Effective Organizations
  86. Why The Future Of Technology Is All Too Human
  87. How To Do Brand Publishing Right
  88. Why Experts Always Seem To Get It Wrong
  89. How To Access The World’s Best Talent—Offshore
  90. Why We Need To Change The Software In Our Organizations
  91. 5 Things Managers Should Know About The Big Data Economy
  92. The Inevitable Collision Of Technology and Politics
  93. How Do You Get People To Pay For Content?
  94. How Technology Enhances Creativity
  95. Mass Personalization Is Coming. Are We Ready For It?
  96. The Truth About Social Media And Revolution
  97. How Games Can Save The World
  98. The New Era Of Talent
  99. How To Innovate Your Media Business Model
  100. The Cloud Disruption
  101. Why Most Marketers Will Fail In The Era Of Big Data
  102. 2014: Year Of The Open Ecosystem
  103. 4 Timeless Rules For Content

2013 105

  1. 5 Smart Technology Trends For The Next 5 Years
  2. Top Posts of 2013
  3. The 2013 Digital Tonto Reading List
  4. How Publishers Can Save Themselves
  5. Should You Be Thinking More About The Customer… Or Less?
  6. How Big Data Can Create Real Business Value
  7. 5 New Principles Of Strategy For The Digital Age
  8. The New Technology Ecosystem That Will Power Small Business
  9. How Technology Transforms Human Experience
  10. 4 Popular Marketing Buzzwords That Are Really Complete Nonsense
  11. The New Rules Of Disruption
  12. Which Tech Giant Has The Best Plan For Global Domination?
  13. Why Cities Are Our Most Important Innovation Platform
  14. 6 Lies We Tell Ourselves
  15. Why Success Often Breeds Failure
  16. Why The Future of Digital Commerce Is The Omnichannel
  17. The New Era Of Cognitive Collaboration
  18. What Jazz Can Teach Business About Innovation
  19. The Future of Marketing
  20. If You Want To Innovate, Follow These 5 Rules
  21. Why Big Data Matters
  22. How To Build An Effective Social Marketing Strategy
  23. How Disruption Happens
  24. 4 Corny Business Ideas That Actually Make Sense
  25. How Technology Is Transforming Our Brains
  26. How Publishers Lost Their Way
  27. A New Age Of Disruption
  28. Confused About Big Data? Here Are 5 Things You Need To Do
  29. The Evolution Of Strategy
  30. Why The Latest NSA Revelations May Truly Be Groundbreaking
  31. The End Of The Scale Economy
  32. How Jeff Bezos Will Revolutionize Publishing
  33. What Michael Jordan Can Teach Us About Big Data, Strategy And Innovation
  34. How Google’s Chromecast Will Change My Life
  35. What Should Drive Your Strategy?
  36. Why Are Publishers Trading Digital Dollars for Analog Dimes?
  37. The Data Divide
  38. 4 Popular Misconceptions About Microsoft
  39. What Is Innovation?
  40. Here’s What You Need To Know About Metadata, Hackers And Privacy
  41. Happy 4th Birthday Digital Tonto!
  42. The Myth Of The Moron CEO
  43. Why Math Matters
  44. Some Of The Most Exciting Tech Companies Are The Ones You Never Hear Of
  45. Why Things Always Get Better
  46. 5 Marketing Problems We Need To Solve Now
  47. The Future Of Innovation Is Simulation
  48. Why Microsoft Is Technology’s Last Grand Strategist
  49. What Makes Silicon Valley Unique?
  50. 4 Government Programs That Drive Innovation
  51. What Can We Expect From The Next Decade of Technology?
  52. How IBM Plans To Rule Mobile
  53. What Is Big Data? (and what do we do with it?)
  54. 4 Ways Open Innovation Can Drive Your Business Forward
  55. Why History No Longer Guides Us
  56. What Every Global Executive Should Know About Working In Emerging Markets
  57. The New Learning Organization
  58. How The NSA Uses Social Network Analysis To Map Terrorist Networks
  59. Managing Complexity
  60. Why The Debate Over 3D Printed Guns Is Much Bigger Than You Think
  61. Why 140 Characters Are Better Than A Flying Car
  62. Why The Google-Nasa Partnership Signals A Completely New Computing Paradigm
  63. Summer Reading List: 12 Little Known Gems
  64. Simulation Marketing
  65. What To Do When Markets Fail?
  66. Why Every Business Should Consider Innovation Teams
  67. The Singularity: Apocalypse or Nerd Rapture?
  68. The Future of TV
  69. The Dark Side of Technology
  70. Why Apple’s Future Is Uncertain
  71. The Economics of Happiness
  72. 4 Principles of Marketing Strategy For The Digital Age
  73. Creating With The Machines
  74. Apple’s Innovation Problem
  75. The Strategic Power of Games
  76. 4 Ways That Technology Is Transforming Business
  77. How The Machines Are Learning To Take Over
  78. Rethinking Marketing Strategy For The Digital Age
  79. Bayesian Strategy
  80. What Nassim Taleb Misses About Technology and Innovation
  81. Forget About Influence And Change Management, It’s Time To Lead A Revolution!
  82. Guest Post: What I Learned About The Future At SXSW
  83. 5 Trends That Will Drive The Future of Technology
  84. How to Manage Innovation
  85. Why Big Data Marketing Can’t Do It All
  86. How Technology Transforms
  87. Print Media’s Digital Malpractice
  88. The Usefulness of Useless Things
  89. 4 Kinds of Leadership
  90. Where to Play and How to Win
  91. How You Will Be Hacked
  92. The Productivity Paradox Revisited
  93. Why Marketing Has Changed… Forever
  94. The New Digital Frontier
  95. How to Network Your Organization
  96. The Problem With Facts
  97. The 4 Things You Need to Know to Make Any Business Successful
  98. The Hacker Economy
  99. Big (data) Medicine
  100. Where Did The iPhone Really Come From?
  101. 4 Popular Marketing Concepts That Need to be Rethought
  102. The Infinite Monkey Theorem
  103. How to Run Effective Meetings
  104. The Simulation Economy
  105. 6 Digital Trends to Watch in 2013

2012 105

  1. The Lesser Known Revolutions that Created the Modern World
  2. Top Posts of 2012
  3. The 2012 Digital Tonto Reading List
  4. How to Write Well
  5. Creative Intelligence
  6. The Microsoft Delusion (with apologies to Henry Blodget)
  7. The New, New Economy of Accelerating Returns
  8. It’s The Math, Stupid
  9. The Leaderless Organization
  10. The 5 Powerhouse Industries of the 21st Century
  11. Who Cares About the Big Bang?
  12. The Reverse Innovation Revolution
  13. Some Hard Truths For Millennials
  14. 3 Big Marketing Trends That Are Right Around the Corner
  15. The Problem with Pundits
  16. How To Disrupt Yourself
  17. The New Industrial Revolution
  18. Why I Still Think Microsoft Will Win With Windows 8
  19. Why Our Numbers Are Always Wrong
  20. How to Build an Innovative Culture
  21. The Evolution of Intelligence
  22. 4 Essential Questions to Ask About Your Digital Strategy
  23. The Visceral Abstract
  24. Are Robots Really the Problem?
  25. Where is Your Tent City?
  26. 3 Keys to The Future of Digital Business
  27. Why it’s Better to Have a Strategic Philosophy than an Ideology
  28. Why There Really is No Free Lunch in Media or Marketing
  29. Are We Losing the Will to Innovate?
  30. 4 Principles of Content
  31. When Should We Go With Our Gut and When Should We Look Before We Leap?
  32. The Difference Between Revolution and Disruption
  33. The Hacker Way
  34. Energy by Algorithm
  35. The Mathematics of “Anything Can Happen”
  36. The Truth About Social Media Marketing
  37. The Potential and Peril of Radical Innovation
  38. 7 Principles of Marketing
  39. Is Greed Really Good?
  40. 5 Super Cool Future Technologies
  41. Understanding Complexity (and what to do about it)
  42. How to Rightsize Marketing Investment
  43. Happy 3rd Birthday Digital Tonto!
  44. 5 Principles of Peak Performance
  45. The Improbable Origins of Modern Computing
  46. The Brand’s New Open Architecture
  47. The Truth About Subversive Organizations
  48. How Viral Ideas Lead the Revolution
  49. The Gospel According to Gladwell
  50. The New Consumer Conversation
  51. The Power of Information
  52. 5 Keys to the Future of Magazines
  53. How (and why) I Blog
  54. 4 Things Marketers Should Know About Publishing
  55. Technology is a Choice
  56. The Post-ROI Marketing World
  57. The 7 Greatest Ideas in History
  58. The Difference between Strategy and Innovation
  59. The Fundamental Problem
  60. The Biggest Digital Media Company You’ve Never Heard Of
  61. The Truth about Innovation
  62. In Defense of Facebook
  63. Summer Reading List: Books That Make You Think
  64. Social Networks and Consumer Targeting
  65. When is Content King?
  66. 4 Types of Innovation (and how to approach them)
  67. The Changing Game of Strategy
  68. Has Microsoft Leapfrogged Apple?
  69. Business Models and the Singularity
  70. 4 New Marketing Paradigms
  71. Why We’re Not as Rational as We’d Like to Think
  72. The New Media Value Chain
  73. 3 Fundamental Shifts in the Basis of Competition
  74. Facebook, Instagram and the Singularity
  75. The Philosophy of Innovation
  76. Co-Creation and the New Web Of Things
  77. The Profit Paradox
  78. How To Innovate Your Digital Brand
  79. How Evolution Drives Culture and Technology
  80. Is Apple a Bubble?
  81. What Drives Prosperity?
  82. 5 Imperatives for Marketing Strategy in the Digital Age
  83. Selfish Memes
  84. The New Digital Battlefield
  85. The Semantic Economy
  86. 4 Reasons Microsoft is Coming Back in a Big Way
  87. What is a Business Model?
  88. Why Digital Marketing Strategy is so Hard
  89. The Scary Truth About Privacy
  90. Brand Engagement and Value Exchange
  91. How Growth Can Kill a Business (and what to do about it)
  92. The Future of Publishing
  93. 6 Principles of Strategy
  94. Why I Still Think the NY Times Paywall is Stupid
  95. Looking for Support Rather than Illumination
  96. Why Windows 8 Will Put Microsoft Back on Top
  97. Share of Synapse = Share of Market
  98. The Future of Retail
  99. 21st Century Strategy
  100. How Apple Disrupts Markets and then Goes on to Dominate
  101. The Future I Saw at CES 2012
  102. Guest Post: How the Hottest Holiday Gifts Will Change Digital Advertising in 2012
  103. Do You Feel Lucky?
  104. 3 Trends for 2012
  105. The Philosophy of Motivation

2011 105

  1. Top Posts of 2011
  2. The 2011 Digital Tonto Reading List
  3. Guest Post: Microreview Apps and the Future of Recommendations
  4. Why We Believe
  5. 2012 – The Year of the Interface
  6. 5 Principles of Innovation
  7. The New Psychology of Marketing
  8. The Pitfalls of Prediction
  9. How Digital Leakage is Redefining Marketing Services
  10. 6 Marketing Myths
  11. Guest Post: #Occupy Wall Street Shows Us How It’s Done
  12. The Truth About Strategy
  13. Exploding The Influentials Myth
  14. The Future by Design
  15. The Right Way to Promote Digital Marketing
  16. The Artist and The Engineer
  17. Why Advertisers Need to Start Taking Online Video Seriously
  18. The Ultimate Code
  19. The Audacity of Youth
  20. The Failure of Strategy (and Strategists)
  21. The Post-Promotional Paradigm
  22. What’s Next for Apple?
  23. 4 Digital Laws
  24. What is Intelligence?
  25. 3 Ways to Use Social Network Analysis for Marketing
  26. A Radical Shift Toward Design
  27. How to be a Successful (Communist) Executive
  28. Broken Logic, Uncertainty and Emergence
  29. Content Strategy vs. Content Skills
  30. An Innovation Roadmap
  31. Guest Post: What We Can Learn from Chinese Digital Culture
  32. The Digital World in 2020
  33. How to Perform Under Pressure
  34. Thick Value vs Thin Value
  35. How to Fix the System
  36. Our World Turned Upside Down
  37. How Mobile Marketing Is Different
  38. What Is Strategy?
  39. Why Social Commerce Will Be Different than E-Commerce
  40. Our Emergent Digital Future
  41. 5 Principles of Creativity
  42. Happy 2nd Birthday Digital Tonto!
  43. How Social Network Analysis Solves Real World Problems
  44. The Case Against Radical Change
  45. Good Ideas and Great Ideas
  46. The Value Paradox
  47. 6 Things Entrepreneurs Need to Know
  48. Marketing, Science and Pseudoscience
  49. 4 Things to Know About Brand Value
  50. The Mona Lisa Code
  51. Confessions of a Math Cheat
  52. We’re All Bureaucrats!
  53. 6 Ways to Spot Liars and Fools
  54. Postcards from the Edge
  55. 3 Blind Marketers
  56. (Ideas Having) Sex and the City
  57. The Web’s Big Future
  58. Simplicity Is Not So Simple
  59. Is There A Tech Bubble? Probably Not…
  60. How Technology Makes Us Smarter
  61. 6 Popular Ideas That Fail
  62. Summer Reading List: Blasts from the Past
  63. How To Unlock Creativity
  64. The Big Idea Myth
  65. The Importance of Marketing Craft
  66. What Do You Think?
  67. The Problem With Communications Planning
  68. Behind Great Stories Of Success Often Lies A Tale of Heartbreaking Desperation
  69. Marketing, Numbers, Math and Science
  70. The Bureaucracy Myth
  71. How to Create Fantastic Media User Experience
  72. Why Trends Are For Suckers
  73. Marketing Creativity in The Digital Age
  74. The Value and Costs of Good Journalism
  75. Elegant Gurus Beating Straw Men
  76. What Makes You So Smart?
  77. 4 Ways to Use Social Networks for Marketing
  78. Structure, Agency and Open Innovation
  79. Who Killed Social Media Marketing?
  80. Mass Media vs. Blogs: What Makes Quality Content?
  81. 3 Levels of Strategy
  82. 5 Reasons Why The New York Times Paywall Will Fail (And Why It’s Really Dumb)
  83. How Technology Evolves
  84. Why Almost Everything You Hear About Digital Media is Wrong
  85. How to Make Better Decisions
  86. Media’s Golden Rule
  87. Why The Lunatics Really Do Run The Asylum
  88. Angry Marketing
  89. Google’s (not so) Stupid Strategy
  90. The Wall Streetization of Marketing
  91. 10 Things I’ve Learned Along The Way
  92. Managing the Hype Cycle
  93. Has The Media World Gone Crazy Again or Do These Deals Makes Sense?
  94. Social Media and Revolution
  95. Why You Should Fire Nasty People
  96. How to Approach Social Influence
  97. Building Creative Collaboration
  98. The (Mis)Measurement of Marketing
  99. How to Cop-Out
  100. Content’s Triumphant Return
  101. Why We Need Marketing Silos
  102. The Web’s New Social Infrastructure
  103. The Accidental Cartesians
  104. Why Facebook May Really Be Worth $50 Billion
  105. 2010 – The Year Everything Was Supposedly Dead; 2011 – The Year of Scale and Synergy

2010 110

  1. Top Posts of 2010
  2. The Digital Tonto Reading List For 2010
  3. How Marketing Promotion Affects Product Performance
  4. Life in a Big Agency Network
  5. The Future of the Advertising Business Model
  6. The Web’s Prisoner’s Dilemma
  7. Is Traditional Media Being “Googled?”
  8. The Passion Economy
  9. Disruptive Marketing
  10. 4 Types of Strategy
  11. Finding Answers in Free Newspapers
  12. When to Bet Against the Crowd
  13. Crossing the Digital Marketing Chasm
  14. The Next Really, Really, Really, Big Thing
  15. The Evolution of Advertising Strategy
  16. Towards a New Media Paradigm
  17. Digital Strategy vs. Digital Skills
  18. How To Be The Dumbest Guy In The Room
  19. Clarifying the Path to Purchase
  20. Small Acts of Courage and Revolution
  21. Remembering Benoit Mandelbrot
  22. The New Marketing Paradigms: Social Networks, Chaos and Memes
  23. A Marketer’s Guide to the Next Web
  24. 4 Things You Need To Be Good At Anything
  25. What is the Future of Social Network Marketing?
  26. The Selective Innovation Trap
  27. The Case Against Heavy Consumers
  28. The Story of Networks
  29. 5 Uncomfortable Facts for the Digital Maniacs
  30. Wittgenstein’s 4 Principles of Communication
  31. How to Make Websites That People Will Actually Use
  32. David Ricardo’s Open Web
  33. Why TV Won’t Die: The Power of Big Seed Marketing
  34. The Right Way to Be Wrong
  35. What Happened to Yahoo?
  36. The Future of Content
  37. A Short Guide to Consumer Targeting
  38. Why The Web Wins
  39. Why Smart People Sometimes Say Stupid Things
  40. Happy Birthday Digital Tonto!
  41. 5 Reasons Why Traditional Media is Making a Comeback
  42. Marketing Memes
  43. 6 Simple Tips for Digital Marketing Success
  44. What it Means to be a Professional
  45. Why Adding Followers Alone Won’t Build Your Community
  46. Creating Efficiency vs. Creating Value
  47. The Winner’s Curse: Why Media Companies Really Underperform
  48. The Importance of Attitudes
  49. The Problem with Direct Response Marketing
  50. Top-down vs. Bottom-up Strategy
  51. Why You Shouldn’t Leave the Web to the Web Guys
  52. 2010 Whine Guide
  53. A Portfolio Approach to Marketing ROI
  54. Stupid Strategy
  55. 7 Ways Ad Agencies Can Capture Value in the Marketplace
  56. Why Content Will Stay Free
  57. The Power of Synthesis and the Problem with Experts
  58. Firing Steve Jobs
  59. Summer Reading List: The Books Behind the Buzz
  60. A Marketer’s Guide to Game Theory
  61. The Myth of Scientific Marketing
  62. 6 Things Marketers Should Know (but often don’t)
  63. Crappy Innovation
  64. 4 Unlikely Digital Heroes
  65. Justin Bieber, Social Networks and How Numbers Can Lie
  66. How to Blame Your Clients
  67. How to Build Cooperation
  68. Newsweek’s Failed Strategy
  69. The Life-Dinner Principle of ROI
  70. How to Solve 5 Common Consumer Analysis Mistakes
  71. The Internet, The Web and the Future of Media
  72. How to Save Newspapers
  73. 3 Ways to Spot Inflection Points
  74. 5 Problems Digital Media Needs to Solve
  75. 5 Popular Lies
  76. How Traditional Media Can Make Digital Profitable
  77. The Power of Brands
  78. 6 Simple Web Development Tips for Traditional Media
  79. How to Make Smarter Crowds
  80. The ROI of Social Broadcast
  81. 3 Crucial Challenges that are Shaping the Future of Business
  82. How to Build Brand Associations
  83. How to Succeed with Certainty
  84. The Difference between Social Media and Social Networks
  85. 6 Ways to Spot Real Gurus
  86. How Traditional Media Can Successfully Make the Transition to Digital
  87. 6 Ways to Spot False Gurus
  88. Forrester Research Report Shows How Far Digital Media Still Needs to Go
  89. The Stupidity of Crowds
  90. Are Ad Agencies Stuck with Commodity Fee Levels?
  91. How to Build a Strong Brand in 5 (not so easy) Steps
  92. How to Leverage Digital Technology for your Firm
  93. The Decision Maker Myth
  94. The Unfinished Marketing Revolution
  95. A Brand is a Promise
  96. 20 Predictions for the Apple iPad
  97. 4 ROI Myths
  98. 5 Reasons Why Apple Will Win Again with the iPad
  99. A Marketer’s Introduction to Social Network Analysis
  100. Why Marketing Rules Are Useless
  101. What Do You Think You Know and Why Do You Think You Know It?
  102. The Real Problem with NYTimes.com
  103. How to Fix the New York Times
  104. How to Create Ideas that Evolve
  105. 5 Trends that will Shape the Future of Advertising
  106. Apple’s (not so) Stupid Strategy
  107. The Importance of Paying Attention
  108. My First Big Sale (…and the secret of how I did it)
  109. Why Magazine Publishers Are Set To Make A Comeback
  110. How to Create Insights

2009 58

  1. Top Posts of 2009
  2. A Digital Tonto Reading List for 2009
  3. Why We Need Innovation
  4. 5 Social Media Myths
  5. Why There Won’t Be A Standard Digital Metric
  6. Can Encryption Keep Our Information Safe?
  7. Sorry, Rupert Murdoch…Content Will Remain Free. Here Are the Facts:
  8. How to Integrate Branded Content and Social Media
  9. Naturalistic Decision Making
  10. Want to know about ROI? The Writing’s on the Wall…
  11. Dr. Feynman’s 6 Principles of Trendspotting
  12. A Guide to Game Theory and Negotiations
  13. Why There Is No Dominant Trend Toward New Media
  14. Lessons Learned in a Tulsa Steakhouse
  15. The Importance of Branding in the Digital Age
  16. How to Compete in a Global Age
  17. Private Language and Marketing-Speak
  18. How Ideas Spread
  19. How to Solve 5 Common Web Publishing Mistakes
  20. How to Approach Marketing ROI
  21. Cargo Cult Marketers
  22. How a Successful Digital Business is Really Built
  23. What Digital Media Can Learn From Magazine Publishers’ Walls
  24. The Semantic Web
  25. How Great Media Companies Fail on the Internet
  26. Less Numbers – More Math
  27. How to Win the War for Talent
  28. Principles of a Perfect Partnership
  29. How TV Broadcasters Can Avoid Digital Doom
  30. Chaotic Social Networks
  31. The Fruitless Quest for Digital Media ROI
  32. Full Service vs. Specialist Ad Agencies: Which is the Right Model?
  33. Advertising on the Brain
  34. How Companies Fail
  35. 5 Things Digital Media Can Learn From Radio
  36. The Incredible New World of Augmented Reality
  37. The Future of Consumer Targeting
  38. Consultants and Confused Apes
  39. The Amazing Possibilities of Social Search
  40. The Greatest Media Salesperson That I Ever Knew
  41. How Magazine Publishers Can Transform Themselves into Digital Giants
  42. The Primal Forces that Drive Social Networks
  43. Digital Media’s Secret Weapon for Winning Ad Budgets (Why so Secret?)
  44. Cultural Sanctimony: Can the Digital World Overcome its Arrogance?
  45. How Magazine Writers Can Adapt to Writing on the Internet
  46. What is Disruptive Innovation?
  47. How to Build Effective Web Product Strategy
  48. What Do Advertisers Want?
  49. 3 trends that will Shape the Digital World over the Next Decade
  50. 5 things “New Media” can learn from “Old Media”
  51. 2 reasons most social networks aren’t successful and 3 things you can do about it
  52. 5 Crucial Aspects of a Digital Media Transition
  53. How to be a Problem Solver
  54. What to do when Adwords doesn’t get results…
  55. The Disadvantages of Cost per Click and CTR Planning
  56. How to be a successful ex-pat
  57. How to do a Turnaround in 5 (not so easy) Steps
  58. Researching country expansion