Where good ideas come from. Creating innovative environments.
Great ideas take a long time to evolve and incubate.
Collision between smaller hunches or other hunches. Create systems for these to come together.
Increase in connectivity. Allows us to see more hunches to contemplate.
Truly innovative people have an ability to see connections across data and ideas, and then turn those patterns they see into even better ideas.
Great innovative leaders instead develop what is called peripheral vision. This is the ability to look not just ahead, but up and down the vertical you are working in and across into very different verticals.
Instead of looking at surface problems, try to figure out what is the root cause of that problem. You are more likely to uncover a profitable solution that way than the other way.
Challenge established and popular mindsets and beliefs. This includes your own!
Do not stand for hypocrisy or manipulation in your organization, especially when it is related to the creativity and execution of ideas.
so you need to make sure it is safe for everyone to discuss issues and ideas out in the open, building trust with your peers, those below you and those above you.
True innovative leaders never stop learning. They are very curious people and are often reading or researching. But they often look for feedback to, hoping to improve what they are doing.
True innovative leaders are masters of experimenting both big and small.
True innovative thinkers will land upon a project and see it to it’s completion. They may have dozens of ideas in their head or paper, but there are single-minded about one or two specific projects.
that they never give up. Even when they’ve failed or fallen to their lost point, they get back up and try again.