Monday, January 22, 2007

Mindsets for Innovation

I just read John Naisbitt's new book called "Mindsets." It is an excellent recource and a very quick read. The greatest thing about the book is that it helps us to change our mindset as we sit down to consider innovation within the mission context.

Our biggest problem many times is that we approach problems from a mindset that almost guarantees failure. The ability to change our mindset is key to innovation. Check out the 11 mindsets that John talks about in this new book.

11 Mindsets Crucial to Innovation
By John Naisbitt

1. While many things change, most things remain constant: The DNA of change spirals around the pillars of consistency.

2. The future is embedded in the present: In the stream of time the future is always with us.

3. Focus on the score of the game: The score of the game cannot be bribed

4. Understanding how powerful it is not to have to be right: Having to be right shackles your mind.”

5. See the future as a picture puzzle: Mix and match until you see the new picture.

6. Don’t get so far ahead of the parade that people don’t know you are in it: The sender has to stay in range of the receiver.

7. Resistance to change falls if benefits are real: You don’t bend down unless something is worth picking up.

8. Things that we expect to happen always happen more slowly: Expectations always travel at higher speeds.

9. You don’t get results by solving problems but by exploiting opportunities: Change is the father of innovation.

10. Don’t add unless you subtract: Never throw more balls than you can juggle.

11. Don’t forget the ecology of technology: Technology is the great enabler, but not in a vacuum.

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