Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Innovator's
DNA
- Innovators
- spend 50% more time on
these discovery activities
- Have 5 five
“discovery skills”
that distinguish the
most creative
executives
- Associating
- Associating, or the ability to
successfully connect
seemingly unrelated
questions, problems, or
ideas from different fields
- As innovators engage in
those behaviors, they
build their ability to
generate ideas that can
be recombined in new
ways.
- Questioning
- Innovators
constantly ask
questions that
challenge
common wisdom
- ‘If we did this,
what would
happen?’”
- Ask “Why?” and “Why
not?” and “What if?” ,
Imagine opposites,
Embrace constraints.
- Observing
- Innovators carefully,
intentionally, and
consistently look out for
small behavioral details
- In order to gain
insights about new
ways of doing
things
- Experimenting
- innovative entrepreneurs
actively try out new ideas
by creating prototypes and
launching pilots.
- Networking
- Devoting time and energy to finding
and testing ideas through a network of
diverse individuals gives innovators a
radically different perspective.
- They are distinguished
by their creative
intelligence
- Practice, Practice, Practice
- Though innovative thinking may
be innate to some, it can also be
developed and strengthened
through practice.