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.

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• 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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