Innovation

Have you made a list of New Year resolutions? Now resolve to make them happen by putting them into action. This is the only way to achieve the goals and ambitions you plan to achieve this year and into the future.On your list have you jotted down "change job/career"? Do you have a burning ambition to work for yourself, to initiate radical yet progressive changes to your lifestyle? Contrary to popular belief, make NOW the right time for you to embark on this new journey of discovery. What are your options? What skills can you take forward with you in your new enterprise? How can you create a successful portfolio career to suit you, your family, and/or your lifestyle?For some, a portfolio career is seen as an opportunity to live their dream, to fit their dream way of working into their lifes...

In preparation for the New Year, I'm profiling five Zero Gravity Businesses who have found their flight path to high-velocity growth. As we all begin to think about those New Year's Resolutions, these businesses offer some great insights into thinking differently and shifting - from Gravity to Growth! Chocomize was founded by three Columbia University grads who had to rethink their future thanks to the new economy. When they couldn't find jobs, they decided to start their own business. But what to do? Well, one of the founders accidentally left some granola, chocolate, M&Ms and Gummi Bears in his car. Well, it was hot and all of that "stuff" turned into a gooey chocolate mess. The guys threw it into the freezer. When they tried it - it was delicious. And Chocomize was born. Wh...

Fifty years ago, lasers were seen as the height of technology. People imagined that they could do all sorts of things, from slicing through the toughest materials to zapping bad guys with their rays. In today's era of technology, we have discovered that lasers can actually be used to do even more than we had hoped possible. You can get corrective eye surgery with lasers so that you do not need glasses. You can use lasers to scan fingerprints at a crime scene. One of the most common but most underappreciated uses for lasers is in manufacturing. Direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) can be used in rapid prototyping. Rapid prototyping is a process by which prototypes for machine parts are able to be created quickly. Since prototypes usually have a few rough edges that need smoothing out befo...

John Milton and many others have propagated, through their poetry, that God has a mysterious way of working that should not be questioned. God created an uncertain world and left its interpretation on His so called greatest creation, Mankind. Since then man has been kind enough to have destroyed the very essence of this uncertain world. Man is an animal who over the course of its existence has invented a lot of tools, all with the intention of making life smoother and easier to live. Man has managed to tame the free flowing river and produce energy out of it, to interpret the meaning of dreams, to write poems on dew drops resting on blades of grass and justified the title of being God's greatest creation by ultimately changing nature's balance. But man has repeatedly, as history teaches...