Book description
For true innovation, you may need to think outside the box and outside the company.
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword by Dorothy A. Leonard
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A Crushing Force
- Part I. What’s Weighing us Down
- Part II. Zero-Gravity Thinkers
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Part III. Defying Gravity
- Chapter 7. The Collaborator: What does a Zero-Gravity Thinker Actually do?
- Chapter 8. When and where … when do you need a Collaborator and where do you Find One?
- Chapter 9. How to Work with a Zero-Gravity Thinker: Eleven Questions and Answers
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Chapter 10. Do-It-Yourself Weightless Thinking: Losing the Weight of Expertise on Your Own
- Practice One: Look at the Challenge as if You Are Someone Else … And Then Someone Else … And Then Someone Else
- Practice Two: Train Yourself to Look for Weird Combinations
- Practice Three: Change the Way You Think About Thinking
- Practice Four: Spend Quality Time Defining the Problem Before Trying to Solve It
- Practice Five: Understand What Constrains Your Thinking
- Practice Six: Nurture the Zero-Gravity Thinker Within
- Key Points
- Chapter 11. The Courage to go Where no one has Gone Before: The Role of the Leader
- Appendix A. Related Expertise Grid
- Appendix B. A Leader’s Guide
- Notes
- Index
Product information
- Title: The Innovation Killer: How What We Know Limits What We Can Imagine And What Smart Companies Are Doing About It
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2006
- Publisher(s): AMACOM
- ISBN: 9780814408834
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