How the Innovators DNA works
What are the personal characteristics of successful innovators?
According to some new research by Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen which included a six-year study surveying 3,000 creative executives and conducting an additional 500 individual interviews they found five ‘discovery skills’ that distinguish them.
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- Associating. Most successful innovators tend to be very good at seeing connections between seemingly disparate ideas.
- Questioning. The ability to ask "what if", "why", and "why not" questions that challenge the status quo and open up the bigger picture.
- Observation. Attention to details, most notably in other people’s behavior.
- Experiment. Universal Remote ipod
Always try new things by constantly exploring new worlds.
- Networking. Ability to talk and learn from people they have nothing in common with.
Let’s call this the innovators code.
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