The Spirit of Innovation, Susan Grandfield

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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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