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Why do smart leaders make terrible choices about breakthrough ideas?Phil McKinney spent 40 years making high-stakes innovation decisions — as HP's CTO and now CEO of CableLabs.
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How To Build Innovation Teams (My Playbook From HP and CableLabs) (opens the original)
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How to build innovation teams, from the playbook I used at HP and CableLabs: culture before hiring, the right roles, the Idea Fund, and the right metrics
How To Improve Your Analytical Thinking Skills (opens the original)
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Critical thinking judges a claim. Analytical thinking works the problem: break it apart, find what is really driving it, and test your read before acting.
Never Forget: 25 Years Remembering Charles Falkenberg and His Family (opens the original)
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First written September 11, 2008. Updated for the 25th anniversary, September 11, 2026.
How to Recognize Failure Patterns: How HP Quit and Apple Won (opens the original)
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A partner named exactly how HP would lose, four years early. HP quit. Apple didn't. Here are the four failure patterns behind both calls.
HP Needs to Stop Before It Can Grow (opens the original)
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A response to Mark Vena's "HP Needs More Than a New CEO," and my second letter to HP's board.
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