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An important aspect of becoming an innovator is learning to act outside the box – to step outside your usual haunts, habits, and thinking patterns to embrace new possibilities.
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Only in a psychologically safe climate can people take the risks necessary to produce truly innovative work.
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Failure is inevitable along the path to innovation. Though you should try to minimize obstacles and setbacks under your control, you an never create a problem-free bubble for your people.
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Innovation has a nasty headwind, rarely a tailwind.
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A shared trait among entrepreneurs and innovators within big companies is defying prescribed roles.
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Innovation happens at the edge of reason, and you can’t reach the edge with a team of similar people.
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When working in a group, innovators must be willing to be the fool.
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The organizations that need innovation the most are the ones that do the most to stop it from happening. It’s a bit of a paradox, but once you see it, it’s a tremendous opportunity.
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…an unfixed mind free of biases, preconceptions, judgments, criticisms, and expectations is therefore alive and awake to wonder, observe, process, and innovate. – Shunryu Suzuki
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There’s a lot of research demonstrating that when companies help people develop new ideas by creating the space and time to clarify their thinking, innovation flourishes.
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