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The Business Journey
31 January 2017
The Business Journey
Susan Grandfield
“The Spirit of Innovation:how to tap into it”
Susan GrandfieldThe Business Journey
31st January 2017
Creating focus I Developing capability I Achieving aspirations
Creating focus I Developing capability I Achieving aspirations
“Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time”
Bill Gates
Creating focus I Developing capability I Achieving aspirations
Creating focus I Developing capability I Achieving aspirations
“It is by logic that we prove, it is by intuition that we discover”
Henri Poincare
What stops innovation? - Test
What do we call the tree that grows from acorns?- oak
What do we call a funny story?- joke
What do we call the sound made by a frog?- croak
What do we call the white of an egg?- white
Patterns and repetition constrain our thinking
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What stops innovation?
Automatic behaviour- through repetition, unconscious competence- the power of “because….”
Entrapment by category- learned as a child, make sense of the world- separates, limits
Acting from a single perspective- rules, customs, laws, practices - conditions our behaviour and thinking
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“I wonder what else I would know if it only occurred to me to ask?”
Ellen Langer
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“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s there are few”
Shunryu Suzuki
The Mindless Expert
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Unconscious Incompetence
Conscious Incompetence
Conscious Competence
Unconscious Competence
FEAR
Stagnate
Innovate
Create a spirit of innovation
Explore other perspectives – “take the other out to lunch” Create space – do nothing Lighten up – play! Avoid premature cognitive commitment – don’t commit or
disregard too soon Develop a new mantra – failure is an option Pay attention – tune into gut feel, notice the small stuff
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