The Innovator's DNA

According to the reading, the innovator's DNA can be summed up in...

• budget to innovate

• genetic strenghts in managers

• discovery skills that can be trained

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The Medici effect described in the reading...

• is an example to argue how associating skills are put into practice

• happens when you are able to combine several experts on different fields

• could explain artistic success in Florence during the Renaissance

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Regarding to experimenting as discovery skill...

• The authors recommend to foster a diverse inernational experience

• The authors highlight that the problem could be allowing too many failures

• Some companies like Amazon try to keep a reduced level of experimentation to avoid failure

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Innovative thinking...

• Is an innate skill that is difficult to train

• may be innate but also you can develop this skill through practice

• is common in all the CEO studied in the article

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One of the first findings about senior executives, shows that:

• In the majority of companies, senior executives do not feel responsible for coming up with innovations

• The majority of senior executives feel that they only have to facilitate the innovation process

• In innovative companies, senior executives do not delegate creative work, they take part actively.

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An innovator should be able question everything through...

• Questions to find out 'Why' and 'Why not'

• Proposing constrains that lead us to think another situation...

• Imaging opposites that help us to understand the situation

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