At some point in the conversations the Wright brothers came up, I can’t exactly remember how, and they shared with us part of a presentation about how organizational innovators should emulate the Wright Brothers.…

Emerging Futures - Volume 252: Was it the Wright Brothers - PT II. Affordances. Exaptation. Emergence. Assemblages. Worldmaking. Welcome to Emerging Futures -- Volume 252! Was it the Wright Brothers - PT II.…

A classical example of this, and one that we have ourselves focused on for other reasons, is the Wright Brothers. Orville and Wilbur Wright were the first to develop human powered flight.…

Last week we were encouraging everyone to be and not to be like the Wright brothers. We received great feedback from this newsletter—it really struck a chord with many readers, and it led to some wonderful discussions.…

Emerging Futures - Volume 253: Was it the Wright Brothers - PT III. Exaptation. Worldmaking. Agency. Emergence. Affordances. Assemblages. Welcome to Emerging Futures -- Volume 253! Was it the Wright Brothers - PT III.…

Epicycles in Action: The Wright Brothers and Beyond. The development of flight offers a perfect illustration of epicycles at work.…

When examining historical innovations like human flight, we discover not a single heroic inventor (the Wright Brothers) but a thicket of simultaneous experiments, debates, and collaborations over multiple time-scales – some successful, others not – that collectively…

Upon meeting and after all the enjoyable banter came to a natural end, they shared a project they were working on – it was a design for an innovation lab based upon their understanding of what made the Wright Brothers succeed where others had failed to be the…

One of the most consequential nodes was the one involving the Wright Brothers and their team.…

It is Orville and Wilbur Wright and their team at Kitty Hawk attuning themselves to sands, prevailing winds, soaring birds, wing warping, kite systems, struts, fabrics, novel concepts, historical actions, metals, motors and much else.…