The web is full of principles for this and that, but here are some good ones on innovation (original posts and explanatory details here, see rhs):
- Experience the world instead of talking about experiencing the world
- See and hear with the mind of a child
- Always ask: “How do we want people to feel after they experience this?”
- Prototype as if you are right. Listen as if you are wrong
- Anything can be prototyped. You can prototype with anything
- Live life at the intersection
- Develop a taste for the many flavors of innovation
- Most new ideas aren’t
- Killing good ideas is a good idea
- Baby steps often lead to big leaps
- Everyone needs time to innovate
- Instead of managing, try cultivating
- Do everything right, and you’ll still fail
- Failure sucks, but instructs
- Celebrate errors of commission. Stamp out errors of omission
- Grok the gestalt of teams
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