Thirty years into use, email continues to be a critical communication channel for innovation teams. But you often suffer from email overload. Know every trait of good and bad usage of email.

Meetings are great opportunities for team members to build upon each others’ ideas. Meetings are critical for alignment. Know every trait of a good meeting in order to maximize them.

Meetings are expensive, so you’d like the quality to rise. You have too many meetings, so you’d like the quantity to fall. Know every trait of a bad meeting in order to minimize them.

Some common documentation is counterproductive: meeting minutes, a public task list, a RAIL, FAQ, and more. You should know what to avoid, why to avoid them, and what to create instead.

Of course not every team member is immediately aligned. Some stakeholders work to undermine the mission, the sense of teamwork, or an individual. Without actually using Aikido in your office, you need tools to neutralize contrarians without injuring them.

A highly competitive world leads to being self-absorbed and self-conscious. Hyper-competition undermines teamwork and collaboration. Improv practices help you commit to collaboration and co-creation. Join the world of “Yes, And.”

There is a time and place for exotic word choice. Your project plan is not that place. Verb Sprawl creates ambiguity and noise. Verb Sprawl hurts your focus, speed, quality, and the employee experience.

The Agile Manifesto served innovation teams well for a couple decades. This post explains eight reasons why it no longer serves teams well and why it’s time to move on.

Legacy methodologies emphasize software. That’s not what makes innovation difficult. Elegance is a methodology that shapes how people interact, collaborate, and govern. Elegance is a combination of discipline and empathy - ruthlessness and grace.

The software-oriented methodology Agile produces code at a frequency of every two weeks. That is not the same as achieving low marginal cost and financial agility. Agile Is Not Agile.

Innovation is often complicated, but the list of what makes innovation difficult is 12 not 1200. Project work has common problems. There is a pattern in the problems.

For employees, a common topic relates to a worker shortage, talent shortage, or a leadership void. In innovation, common topics are tech debt and documentation debt. We need to talk more about Methodology Debt.