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Creating a productive schedule
Avoiding procrastination
Prioritizing tasks effectively
Networking
good at networking with smart people who have little in common with them, but from whom they can learn.
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MORE IDEAS ON THIS
Innovators not only learned early on to think different, they act different (and even talk different).
JEFF DYER
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Observing
bility to closely observe details, particularly the details of people’s behavior.
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Best Of All Five
questioning turbo-charges observing, experimenting, and networking, but questioning on its own doesn’t have a direct effect without the others. Overall, associating is the key skill
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Association
It’s a cognitive skill that allows creativepeople to make connections across seemingly unrelated questions, problems, or ideas.
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Questioning
Ability to ask “what if”, “why”, and “why not” questions that challenge the status quo and open up the bigger picture.
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InnovatorS' DNA
Professors Jeff Dyer of Brigham Young University and Hal Gregersen of Insead explain how the “Innovators’ DNA” works. His six-year study surveying 3,000 creative executives and conducting an additional 500 individual interviews. During this study you found five “discovery skills” that distinguish...
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