This weeks must read story is about the personal characteristics of successful innovators, the Innovators Code. A research study conducted by Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen found five ‘discovery skills’ that distinguish them. The ability to associate, question, observe, experiment and network.
- The Innovators Code (Harvard)
- IDEO’s Tim Brown Design Thinking Mindmap (Vimeo)
- How Business Is Adopting Design Thinking (BusinessWeek)
- Is Reverse Innovation Like Disruptive Innovation? (Harvard)
- Does Falling in Love Make Us More Creative? (Scientific American)
- Why successful leaders fall apart (FT)
- The Myth of Crowdsourcing (Forbes)
- The metric that’s killing web innovation (Techcrunch)
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