Top 20 Innovation Articles of May 2016

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At the beginning of each month we will profile the twenty posts from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Innovation Excellence. We also publish a weekly Top 8 as part of our FREE email newsletter. Did your favorite make the cut?

But enough delay, here are May’s twenty most popular innovation posts (each receiving 2,800 – 9,900 page views):

1. The 9 Rules of Innovation – by Greg Satell
2. Measuring Innovation, Part 2/3: The Criteria for a Good Innovation Index – by Yoram Solomon
3. DisrupTV: an innovation conversation with Deb Mills-Scofield, Paul Daugherty and Esteban Kolsky – by Mari Anixter
4. Toward a Better Definition of Innovation – by Michael Graber
5. How I Use Design Thinking to Leverage Strength and Design ‘around’ Weakness – by John K. Coyle
6. The Rise of the Smart Creative (Lessons from Google) – by Janet Sernack
7. What you really need to innovate is… – by Patrick Willer
8. How to Embrace Risk to Create Value – by Brennan McEachran
9. 30 Academic Resources on Learning – for Educators and Innovators – by Saga Briggs
10. Four Key Strengths of the Effective Leader – by Ram Lonkar

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11. Can You Teach People to Innovate? – by Jeffrey Phillips
12. Reimagining the Workday – by Daniel Kraft
13. Stop Believing your Publicity and Test it with a Minimum Viable Product – by Paul Sloane
14. Six Levers for Solving the Corporate Innovation Problem™ – Part 1 – by Rob Munro and Frank Mattes
15. Secret Weapon for Innovation: What Google, Apple, Tesla have in common – by Maria Scileppi
16. The Genius of Recognizing Genius – by Greg Satell
17. Fighting Back! The Culture of Fear and Innovation Assassination – by Robert F Brands
18. Will Innovation be Responsible for Destroying Jobs and Creating Mass Technological Unemployment? – by Andy Heikkila
19. How Mastering CEO-Speak Can Help Lead to Successful Implementation of Your Innovation – by Robert F Brands
20. TED Talk: “Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator” – VIDEO

BONUS – Here are four more strong articles published the last week of the month:

• The Future of Jobs and Education – by Matthew Griffin
• TEDx: Are You Open Minded? Three Ways to Break Thinking Patterns – by Paul Sloane
• Taking Innovation from Lab to Society – by Adi Gaskell
• The Innovative Mindset – by Gary Klein

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P.S. Here are links to our online magazine highlighting the Top 40 Innovation Bloggers the last three years:

• Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2012
• Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2013
• Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2014

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Braden Kelley is a popular innovation speaker, builds sustainable innovation cultures, and tools for creating successful change. He is the author of the five-star book Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire and the creator of a revolutionary new Change Planning Toolkit™. Follow him on Twitter (@innovate) and Linkedin.