Innovation Behavior

Innovation Essentials: Choose to Imagine

2017-04-10T21:47:11-06:00By |Innovation Behavior, Innovation Culture, Uncategorized|

Accomplished innovators routinely choose their imagination over their knowledge. They recognize, as Einstein did, that knowledge is limited—and limiting—and they don’t want to be caught unprepared for the inevitable changes and surprises they know they will encounter. They exercise their imagination like an athlete exercises muscles, not because it’s always needed, but because without exercise it won’t be ready to perform at those crucial times when it is needed.

We Learned Early How to Kill Innovation

2017-04-10T21:47:11-06:00By |Innovation Behavior, Personal Innovation Skills, Uncategorized|

We need to stop stopping ourselves. We’ve been conditioned to suppress our creative impulses and with them our capacity to innovate. When the world was stable and predictable, this may have been adaptive. But none of us lives in that world anymore. We live in a much more dynamic place where we need to constantly learn and unlearn and relearn...

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