Originals
Synopsis
"How non-conformists change the world"
Individual actions:
Individual actions:
- Question the defaults
- Triple the number of ideas you create
- Immerse yourself in a new domain
- Procrastinate strategically
- Seek feedback from peers
Voicing original ideas
- Balance your risk portfolio
- highlight reasons NOT to support the idea
- Make your idea familiar (repetition&analogies)
- Speak to a different audience
- Be a tempered radical
Managing Emotions
- Motivate yourself differently when you're committed (how much left to go) vs uncertain (how far you are so far )
- Don't try to calm down, rather excite yourself
- Focus on the victim, not the perpetrators
- Realize you're not alone
- Remember that if you don't take initiatives, status quo persists
Leader Actions:
sparking ideas:
sparking ideas:
- run an innovation tournament
- picture yourself as the enemy
- invite people from different functions and different levels ( mid-management alone is anti-innovation)
- Hold an opposite day
- ban the words like, hate, love
building cultures of originality
- Do no hire on cultural fit, but on cultural contribution
- shift from exit interview ( what they would have like the company to have, would have kept them ) to entry interview
- Ask for problems, not solutions ( better to acknowledge everything )
- Do not assign devil's advocate, find them
- Welcome criticism
Parent&Teachers actions:
- Ask Children what their role models would do
- link good behavior to moral character
- explain how bad behaviors has bad consequence for others
- Emphasize values over rules
- create novel niches for children to pursue
My take
That was a great book. Thoroughly researched and yet lots of fun anecdotes