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Engage in sci-fi thinking to understand what makes people tick
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Last week I gave a workshop on how to mine social networks for insights. I used Facebook’s Fan Pages as a use case. Many of the participants were surprised as they didn’t visit Fan Pages and thought most were spammy. They also said they didn’t like it when brands suddenly went off topic because businesses should be serious, not fun (dominant assumption calling to be turned upside down).
And boy were they surprised with what I told them next… (more…)
Innovation must reads of the week: How to think about the future
- Unfreezing the middle, seeing a different innovating prospective by @paul4innovating
- 5 Keys to Building a Learning Organization – Forbes
- The 6 Questions That Lead To New Innovations – FastCoExist
- How to Think About the Future by @timkastelle
- The Brainstorming Process Is B.S. But Can We Rework It? – FastCoDesign
- Have a disruptive offering? Here are 5 tips for achieving widespread adoption
Innovation must reads of the week: Age of Disruption?
- Is Innovation Too Messy To Be Managed And Taught? Hardly – FastCo Design
- The Truth: Creativity Comes From Blending Dissonant Goals Into Radical Harmony – FastCo Design
- Are You Learning as Fast as the World Is Changing? – HBR
- Truthtellers by @johnsonwhitney
- Age of Disruption? – Dachis Group
- Want Innovation? Hire for Skills not Attitude by @bill_fischer
There were a lot more interesting reads this week, check out my Delicious bookmarks on Innovation for more.
MBA in Curiosity
Last month I got invited to be part of a small group of Businessmen/Entrepreneurs/Consultants/CEO’s that meet once per month to talk about technology and innovation. We’re calling it Mix 2.0 for some reason.
Our first meeting was Wednesday. We met at (ironically) Bar20 at VIA Corporativo, which is one floor beneath my office. There were about 15 of us and we had the place all to ourselves. We sat in a circle, and to get things rolling we introduced ourselves.
The 2nd person to introduce himself is an inventor. Among other things, he worked on the Nintendo Wii controller about two years before the Wii came out. As you can imagine he’s a very interesting person. He spent about 10 minutes talking about his career. This set the tone for everyone else. I soon started thinking: Let the I-out-credential-you begin! (more…)
3 cognitive limits we must overcome to think differently
Expertise is the enemy of innovation right? Yes, but even experts can think differently. And there’s much to learn from them on how they are able to overcome their ‘know-it-all’ tendencies.
Indeed, research into expertise and expert performance explains how great strategists use mental frames to break cognitive barriers that prevent others from seeing new options. It is not just that experts know more about the problem—in fact they often know less—but they think differently. They restructure, reorganize, and refine their representation of knowledge so as to more efficiently apply knowledge to solve problems.
Thinking differently is just a matter of shifting your frame. Of seeing things from a different point of view. But what inhibits us from being able to think differently?
More specifically, what happens inside our minds that limit our capacity to think differently? (more…)
Innovation posts of the week: The Genius behind “Genius Lunches”
- Flipping Orthodoxies: Overcoming Insidious Obstacles to Innovation – Monitor
- The Surprising Benefits of Solitude – HBR
- What is the definition of “innovation”? by @ovoinnovation
- How Apple Disrupts Markets and then Goes on to Dominate by @timkastelle and @digitaltonto
- Why Is Diversity Vital For Innovation? – Forbes
- The genius behind “Genius Lunches” – Salon
