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ACTION POINTS

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Be humble. Have the humility to know that you don’t know.

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Don’t enable the corporate immune system that your people are trying to avoid.

Encourage people to venture outside of their own (comfortable) spaces.

There is a specific mindset that that drives creativity and innovation, and based on research in my book – “ALIEN thinking: The unconventional path towards breakthrough ideas”, we have created a model that enables people to cultivate a fresh perspective and generate one breakthrough solution after another. There are five ALIEN strategies:

3 IMAGINATION. 4 EXPERIMENTATION. 5 NAVIGATION.

Recognize hard-to-see patterns and to connect seemingly disparate dots to imagine unorthodox combinations.

RECOMMENDED READING

ALIEN THINKING: THE UNCONVENTIONAL PATH TOWARDS BREAKTHROUGH IDEAS Cyril Bouquet, Jean-Louis Barsoux, and Michael Wade (PublicAffairs, March 2021) ORIGINALS: HOWNON- CONFORMISTSMOVE THEWORLD AdamGrant (Virgin Digital, February 2016)

Test ideas quickly and smartly, with the goal of improving – not just proving – your idea.

1 ATTENTION. 2 LEVITATION.

Look with fresh eyes to observe problems that need to be solved, opportunities worth addressing, and solutions that can be dramatically improved or revised.

Deal with potentially hostile environments and adjust to the forces that can make or break your solution.

Step back from the creative process to gain perspective and enrich your understanding.

THE PAUSE PRINCIPLE: STEP BACK TO LEAD FORWARD Kevin Cashman (Berrett-Koehler, October 2012)

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