Phil McKinney — Innovation Decision Expert
R&D Spending Is the Most Misleading Number in Business
Ghost Research: The Hidden Risk Inside Every R&D Organization
Innovation Laundering
The Innovation Metric Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard Used
PayPal Spends $3 Billion on R&D. Almost None of It Is Research.
The R&D Metric Mark Hurd and HP Got Wrong
You Knew Before I Did
They're Everywhere
How To Build a Decision System That Protects Your Thinking
Elliott Is Inside HPE. We All Know What Happens Next.
How To Quit Defending Decisions You Know Are Wrong
Why I Never Negotiate My Salary
How To Think for Yourself When Everyone Disagrees With You
How To Think for Yourself When Everyone Disagrees With You
How to Make Better Decisions Under Pressure
How to Make Better Decisions Under Pressure
Shell Had Six Years to Prepare. I Had Four Months.
How to Beat Decision Fatigue
How to Beat Decision Fatigue
An Open Letter to HP's Board, and Every Board Governing an Innovation-Dependent Organization
HP Has Fired, Forced Out, or Lost 6 CEOs in 25 Years. Here We Go Again.
How to Stop Overthinking Your Decisions
How I Bankrupted Two Companies
Mindjacking: When Your Opinions Aren't Yours
How I Mindjacked Boards for a Living
CES 2026: Battle of the AI Robots
Box Think™ Innovation Framework
Innovation Glossary: Terms, Frameworks, and Thinking Tools
Mental Models — Your Thinking Toolkit
The Million-Dollar Decision I Got Wrong (And Why I'm Grateful)
The Military Ignored His Brain Injury. So He Built What Could Have Saved His Brothers.
They Accused Me of Fraud. It Made $20 Billion.
What I'm Actually Thankful For (After My Body Failed Three Times This Year)
From Teligent Disaster to HP Success: A Second-Order Thinking Story
I'm Thinking About Writing a Book. Here's Why—And I Need Your Help.
I Wore a Red Badge Inside the NSA. Here's What Happened.
The Six Words That Killed Quibi
HP Won Innovation Awards. Then Killed What Made It True.
Kroger Copied HP's Innovation Playbook Perfectly. It Failed Anyway.
I Told the Department of Education Their Graduates Were Useless
Why the People Who Disagree with You Are Your Secret Weapon
The Daily Journaling Habit That Helped Me Find My Authentic Innovation Self
The 10-Minute Airport Conversation That Generated HP Billions
The WSJ Got Quarterly Reporting Wrong: A Corporate Executive's Response
Can an Innovation Be Impossible?
The Innovation Fatigue Crisis: Why Your Best Ideas Are Getting Ignored
The Thinking Hack That Built Billion-Dollar Companies
The 50-Year Overnight Success: What Dr Bose Taught Me About Innovation Patience
How HP and Fossil Handed Apple the Smartwatch Market
The $200M Gut Check That Taught Me Intuition Isn't Magic
The Secret of Top Innovation Leaders: They Think Like Philosophers
The Day I Wrote Off Twitter (Before It Was Twitter)
I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days.
The Parenting Decision That Will Define Your Child's Future
Why We Have Fewer Friends Than Our Grandparents (And It's Not What You Think)