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INTRODUCTION
Based on the results of a 6-year survey on over 3,000 executives and 500 corporate innovators. Aims to answer two questions of crucial importance to organizational management:
How can I find innovative people? y How can I become more innovative myself?
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An essential finding of the survey is the 5 key skills that make innovative people not only think differently but also act differently in a corporate environment, and constitutes their DNA.
SKILL N1 : ASSOCIATING
Creativity is connecting things, Steve Jobs
The ability to successfully connect seemingly unrelated questions and problems from different fields. The capacity to associate is linked with the number of connections the brain makes, based on knowledge and past experience. The most innovative companies rose from the ability of their founders to make the connection between various facts and observations: the example of Pierre Omidyar.
SKILL N2 : QUESTIONING
The important and difficult job is never to find the right answers, it is to find the right question, Peter Drucker
SKILL N3 : OBSERVING
Going to the spot and seeing for yourself, Akio Toyoda
Observe
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SKILL N4 : EXPERIMENTING
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Fail to succeed
Innovative people use failure as a way to learn Failure isnt a drama, just a step toward success
SKILL N5 : NETWORKING
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These five key skills might be innate to some but they can also be acquired via the rehearsal of the previously described behaviors:
Questioning can be improved by spending 15 to 30 minutes every day listing unthought of questions. Why? Why not? What if? Seek to observe how customers naturally use and experience daily products and how they could be made more practical. Getting rid of personal judgements
Networking
Contact the 5 most innovative people you know and make one of them your networking guru, diversify your acquaintances.
KEY FINDINGS
There are 5 key skills that constitute the DNA of true innovators and make them both think and act different from the rest. Those key skills can be acquired by constant exercizing: training yourself every day to ask unusual and challenging questions and to think out of the box.