I have reported a version of this post in the InnovaScapes Institute blog https://innovascapes.blogspot.com/ so I will try not to be repetitive here, but just get the word out.
The big news is that a long-running show, The Global Innovation Show by Ailan McCullen, based in Ireland, and aired around the world, does focus on Innovation topics, and they got interested in material in our book Permission Denied (Lulu, 2013), a book still available from Lulu Press, Goodreads, Amazon, and Bookshops.org (an organization of independent bookstores).
Amazon's posting has three reviews, one great, one terrible, and one with (at the time) a very legitimate complaint). The first is by Miles Kehoe, a noted innovation consultant in Silicon Valley. He got the essence of the book! The seoncd is a review by a youngster who thought the book to be a commissioned flak piece for HP, who treated it as an autobiography of an uninteresting product family written in mediocre style. He instead recommends David Packard's autobiography (which by the way includes several paragraphs about me). The third one is from a maligned industry colleague, who was mis-identified, to my surprise at the time. I apologized to him at the time, tried to remove all references to the situation from both online versions and the printed copy, and have had no further feedback in more than a decade. Unfortunate--yes. Fact-checking is a great concept, but as all authors know, it is really more difficult than you might expect. I lamented the early death of a XeroxPARC colleague once (in the HP Phenomenon book), and a guest at a dinner party said sweetly, "I had dinner with him last week". I called the person the next day, apologized for the error, and he blithely intoned, "Glad it wasn't true."
Long intro, sorry. The point is that this next Friday, Nov. 7, will be an interview about the book and about Intrapreneuring Innovation. So I had to re-read the book, to see what I said, and indeed what I thought some years back.
I then penned the following to McCullen:
So, we'll see where the interview goes. But what impressed me, upon re-reading, is that (A) I liked what I read (even thinking that I'd have a hard time expressing it better now), and (B) the rules and the stories seem as relevant, maybe even more so, for the events and experiences we've had at AstroVirtual over the past two or three years than they did in those long-ago anecdotes when I was a mere stripling youth.
Maybe there should be a second edition or updating??? We have, after all, delivered several thousand books against an old theme. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE LATELY?
