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Where Good Ideas Come From

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A little inspiration for connecting the dots.

TED Talk: Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson

by TEDtalksDirector

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Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson

by RiverheadBooks

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How do disruptors think differently? (My notes from a HBR webinar.)

Innovation Always Starts With Empathy; Look at Zipcar and Even Apple -- Why empathy is a creative company’s most powerful tool.

Innovation Starts With Disruptive Hypotheses. Here's How To Create One --The process hinges on three steps: Defining the situation, searching for cliches, and twisting those cliches around, according to Luke Williams.

Steve Shapiro talks with rocket scientists at TEDxNASA. Completely worth investing the 6:23.

by TEDxTalks

A little bet is a low-risk action taken to discover, develop, and test an idea. So, for instance, Chris Rock develops new comedy routines by making little bets with small audiences, while Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos makes small bets to identify opportunities in new markets. Little bets are at the center of an approach to get to the right idea described in the book that any of us can learn without getting stymied by perfectionism, risk-aversion, or excessive planning.

Unabashedly inspired by Malcolm Gladwell's bestselling The Tipping Point, the brothers Heath—Chip a professor at Stanford's business school, Dan a teacher and textbook publisher—offer an entertaining, practical guide to effective communication. Drawing extensively on psychosocial studies on memory, emotion and motivation, their study is couched in terms of "stickiness"—that is, the art of making ideas unforgettable.

Provocative puzzles, anecdotes, exercises, metaphors, cartoons, questions, quotations, stories, and tips designed to systematically break through your mental blocks and unlock your mind for creative thinking.

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