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Breaking barriers to innovation and learning
An exercise in Systems Thinking and Innovation: Notice barriers & break them.
1. What is innovation? What is learning?
2. Risk mistakes and accept being wrong
3. Thinking in different ways
4. Some rules for innovating with others
Personal reflection:
Observe yourself and record what you notice
Agenda
Breaking barriers to innovation and learning
An exercise in Systems Thinking and Innovation: Notice barriers & break them.
1. What is innovation? What is learning?Innovation: “Acting on ideas for a purpose”
Learning: “Observing self and changing”
Personal reflection:State your purpose in the world
Observe and note how you view the world
Identify personal barriers to innovation and change
Break key barriers, innovate and learn!
An exercise in Systems Thinking and Innovation: Notice barriers. Break them.
2. Risk mistakes – A message from a Tar Heel
Breaking barriers to innovation and learning
An exercise in Systems Thinking and Innovation: Notice barriers. Break them.
2. Risk mistakes – A message from a Tar Heel – A French Philosopher – And 1,200 years earlier,
I think therefore I am
2. Risk mistakes – A message from a Tar Heel – A French Philosopher – And 1,200 years earlier, an Augustinian Saint
Breaking barriers to innovation and learning
2. Risk mistakes and accept being wrong – A message from a Tar Heel – A French Philosopher and 1,200
years earlier, an Augustinian Saint– And a “wrongologist” from Brown
An exercise in Systems Thinking and Innovation: Notice barriers. Break them.
2. Risk mistakes– A message from a Tar Heel – A French Philosopher and 1,200
years earlier, an Augustinian Saint
Kathryn Schulz, “Wrongologist”
Breaking barriers to innovation and learning
2. Risk mistakes and accept being wrong – A message from a Tar Heel – A French Philosopher and 1,200
years earlier, an Augustinian Saint– And a “wrongologist” from Brown
An exercise in Systems Thinking and Innovation: Notice barriers. Break them.Kathryn Schulz, “Wrongologist”
Breaking barriers to innovation and learning
The Nine Dot Puzzle: “Connect the nine dots with as few straight lines as possible
without lifting the pen from the paper”
An exercise in Systems Thinking and Innovation: Notice barriers. Break them.
Breaking barriers to innovation and learning3. Thinking in different ways
Rules• Do not lift pen. Keep the lines straight• Keep the relative (square) orientation of dots
Hints (for thinking in different ways)All Rounds: Observe yourself [Thinking, Feeling, Being & Believing]
1st Round: Try something [TARR: Think, Act, Review, Re-Act]
2nd Round: Think systemically [Elements interact for a purpose]
3rd Round: Borrow a brain [Share understanding and ideas]
An exercise in Systems Thinking and Innovation: Notice barriers. Reduce them.
A 5-line solution
3. Thinking in different ways
An exercise in Systems Thinking and Innovation: Notice barriers. Break them.
From IDEO’s “Shopping Cart” challenge
•One conversation at a time•Stay focused•Encourage wild ideas•Defer Judgment•Build on the ideas of others
4. Some rules for innovating with others
Personal reflection in session:
An exercise in Systems Thinking and Innovation: Notice barriers. Break them.
You
Physically
What feelings
What thinking
What beliefs
Helps Hurts
Helps Hurts
Help Hurt
Help Hurt
Practice 1: Personal Scorecard
Purpose
Family
Health
FinanceFriends
EXAMPLE of PERSONAL SCORECARD
2003
Practice 2: Prospective•Inn
ovation facilitator
•Executive coach
Skills•Ca
ring
•Curious
Traits
•Teacher
•Speaker
Futures
EXAMPLE of a PROSPECTIVE