Chapter 5 - Innovation

[Paul Terlemezian]

Grinders - work harder, Hackers prefer work smarter...Innovation, 500 hundred years ago - synonym for sin - today it is purposeful - remaking life (page 101)

Turn an exception into a new rule, leverage conflict, eat your enemy (repeat) - page 101 (imagination accelerates intuition) - spot exceptions...

What if an anomaly became a new norm? (embrace the weird)

Think different (page 104)

"without wishing harm, offend society with unconventionality" (page 106) (lean into singularity instead of leaning into commonality)

Leverage conflict (your intuition latches onto an exception) - this has no place in logic - try to avoid the tendency to avoid conflict...(new answers to old questions; new questions to old problems)

Create a new story, a better story - for everyone? "generate innovation from the conflict between the why of a conventional rule (new questions to old problems) and the what if of an exception (new answers to old questions)"

Page 110 - obstacle course and Imani's example at GLN 2016 (the problem with problem solving) and the marine example with MBA grads ("get the vehicle on the roof across the street.")

Darwin (pages 111-115) - Many competing for abundance and few competing with scarcity ("evolution driven by mutant individuals that double down on their exceptional genes until they become a breakthrough species")

Eat your enemy (Andreesen "software is eating the world") - Compete, discover, collaborate

"Our teams can think individually, together" - page 120 (like ushers at All Saints') - maybe the Flow that Judy has introduced to us?

Clausewitz process aligns well with id/DEAL - page 122 (original plans vs. logical plans)