Sep 16, 2006
Inlovate
- Successful innovators are famously untroubled by failure.
- Many innovators appreciate failure.
- Innovators commonly recognize that “problems and questions are the limiting resource in innovation.â€Â
- Innovators find inspiration in disparate disciplines.
- Innovation flourishes when organizations allow third-party experimentation with their products.
- Fragility is the enemy of innovation: systems should boast broad applications and be unbreakable.
- Real innovators delight in giving us what we want: solutions to our difficulties and expansive alternatives to our established ways.
- Real innovators are sometimes perplexed by our ignorance of our own needs.
- Successful innovators do not depend on what economists call “network externalities,†i.e., the innovation is valuable to the very first user.
- Many innovators become technologists because they want to better the world