think and behave like a five year old: 9 habits of innovators
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A 60 minutes Innovation keynote speech on the 9 Habits of innovators by Angela Koch of Invitro Innovation. The premise of this keynote is that our behaviours are more important determinants of our innovation output than our brainpower. Angela delivers this keynote at corporate Innovation events in cities around Asia. www.invitro.com.sg 30 downloads will be permitted.TRANSCRIPT
The Habits of Innovators are NOT unique to the adult world.
In fact we were probably at the height of our Innovativeness when we were just Five Years Old.
Shed some of your adultness, shake off your pressures,
forget about tomorrow’s deadlines and inhabit the world of the Five Year Old
so you can create and invent fearlessly.
Think and Behave like a Five Year old.
By Angela Koch Delivered at MeciaCorp Innovation Blitz,
6 December 2011
The 9 Habits of Innovators
Habit 1: Discipline
Make Innovation Routine, Not Accidental
Like any ability we wish to master, a level of commitment and discipline is required. Serial Innovators make Innovation a Routine part of how they work, rather than relying on Accidental Innovation.
Habit 2: Sharing
Innovation Is A Team Sport
For ideas to germinate and for Innovation to happen we require Both a diverse set of perspectives and a mix of Thinkers and Doers.
“Enlightened trial & error succeeds over the planning of the lone genius.”
Author Keith Sawyer says when collaboration works well it creates a kind of magical effect where the intelligence and creative outputs of the group are greater than the
sum of the individual outputs.
Habit 3: Observing
Innovators observe people in their everyday life
Become Students of Human Behaviour By simply keeping your eyes open and watching people go about the business of everyday life, new insights may help solve a persistent challenge.
Habit 4: Discovery
Innovators are curious about everything
“The real voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes, but seeing with new eyes” - Marcel Proust
Habit 5: Passion Innovators are powered by
A Driving Purpose.
Habit 6: Questioning
Why Not
How might we
What If
Why ?
?
“The important and difficult job is never to find the right answers, It is to find the right question.”
- Peter Drucker
Habit 7: Associating
Combine seemingly unrelated things
Creativity happens when two things collide to create a new idea.
+ =
“to invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk” -Thomas Edison
Habit 8: Networking
Want to Play?
“The insights required to solve many of our most challenging problems come from outside our industry and scientific field.” Kent Bowen
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P&G are Open Innovation champions
Innovation is serious play
Habit 9: Experimenting
“I haven’t failed, … I’ve just found 10,000 ways that do not work”
- Edison
“Dance like nobody's watching; Love like you've never been hurt.
Sing like nobody's listening. Live like it's heaven on earth.”
Mark Twain~
Invent fearlessly, like the Five Year old you once were!