Innovator's DNA - Discovery Skills

The Innovator’s DNA - From INSEAD and Clayton Christensen -  

The five “discovery skills” that distinguished innovators from non-innovators.

1. Innovators ask provocative questions that challenge the status quo.
2. They observe the world like anthropologists to detect new ways of doing things.  
3. They network with people who don’t look or think like them to gain radically different perspectives.
4. They experiment to relentlessly test new ideas and try out new experiences.
5. Finally, these behaviours trigger new associations which allow them to connect the unconnected, thereby producing disruptive ideas.

Power of Indulgence

If Tomorrow Never Comes

If Tomorrow Never Comes lyrics  - Garth Brooks

Sometimes late at night
I lie awake and watch her sleeping
She's lost in peaceful dreams
So I turn out the lights and lay there in the dark
And the thought crosses my mind
If I never wake up in the morning
Would she ever doubt the way I feel
About her in my heart

If tomorrow never comes
Will she know how much I loved her
Did I try in every way to show her every day
That she's my only one
And if my time on earth were through
And she must face the world without me
Is the love I gave her in the past
Gonna be enough to last
If tomorrow never comes

'Cause I've lost loved ones in my life
Who never knew how much I loved them
Now I live with the regret
That my true feelings for them never were revealed
So I made a promise to myself
To say each day how much she means to me
And avoid that circumstance
Where there's no second chance to tell her how I feel

If tomorrow never comes
Will she know how much I loved her
Did I try in every way to show her every day
That she's my only one
And if my time on earth were through
And she must face the world without me
Is the love I gave her in the past
Gonna be enough to last
If tomorrow never comes

So tell that someone that you love
Just what you're thinking of
If tomorrow never comes

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Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

1) Be Proactive

As human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. We have the independent will to make our own choices and decisions, and the responsibility ("the ability to respond") to make the right choices. You have the freedom to choose your own fate and path, so having the independent will, imagination and self-awareness to make the right move makes you a proactive, and not a reactive, person.

2) Begin With The End In Mind

Mental visualization is extremely important. Covey says that all things are created twice: first, the mental conceptualization and visualization and a second physical, actual creation. Becoming your own creator means to plan and visualize what you're going to do and what you're setting out to accomplish and then go out and creating it. Identifying your personal statement and your principles will help.

3) Put First Things First

With your power of independent will, you can create the ending you want to have. Part of that comes with effective time management, starting with matters of importance. Then tasks should be completed based on urgency after you deal with all the important matters. If you deal with crises, pressing problems and deadline-driven projects first, your life will be a lot easier.

4) Think Win/Win

If you believe in a better way to accomplish goals that's mutually beneficial to all sides, that's a win/win situation. "All parties feel good about the decision and feel committed to the action plan," Covey wrote. "One person's success is not achieved at the expense or exclusion of the success of others." If you have integrity and maturity, there's no reason win/win situations can't happen all the time.

5) Seek First To Understand, Then To Be Understood

If you're a good listener and you take the time to understand a concept, it will help you convey your opinions, plans and goals to others. It starts with communication and strong listening skills, followed by diagnosing the situation and then communicating your solution to others.

6) Synergize

Synergistic communication, according to Covey, is "opening your mind and heart to new possibilities, new alternatives, new options." This applies to the classroom, the business world and wherever you could apply openness and communication. It's all about building cooperation and trust.

7) Sharpen The Saw

Sometimes you're working so hard on the other six habits that you forget about re-energizing and renewing yourself to sharpen yourself for the tasks in front of you. Some sharpening techniques include exercise and nutrition, reading, planning and writing, service and empathy and commitment, study and meditation.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/stephen-coveys-7-habits-of-highly-effective-people-2012-7#ixzz216D5A3kw

Define-Collaborate-Measure-Improve

What is not planned cannot be defined
What is not defined cannot be controlled(Collaborate WITHOUT Authority)
What is not controlled cannot be measured
What is not measured cannot be improved

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail

Don't judge people before you truly know them

A 24 year old boy seeing out from the train's window shouted: "Dad, look the trees are going behind!" Dad smiled & a young couple sitting nearby, looked at the 24 year old's childish behavior with pity, suddenly he again exclaimed: "Dad, look the clouds are running with us!" The couple couldn't resist & said to the old man: "Why don't you take your son to a good doctor?" The old man smiled & said: "I did & we are just coming from the hospital, my son was blind from birth, he just got his eyes today." Every single person on the planet has a story. Don't judge people before you truly know them. The truth might surprise you!!

Seven Step Problem Solving

1. Definition
2. Data Collection
3. Cause Analysis
4. Solution Planning and Implementation
5. Evaluation of Effectiveness
6. Standardization
7. Evaluation of Process

A Good One : Empathy and Sympathy

A doctor entered the hospital in hurry after being called in for an urgent surgery. He found the boy’s father pacing anxiously, waiting for him.
Seeing him, the father yelled, “Why did you take so long to get here? Don’t you know that my son’s life is in danger? Don’t you have the sense of responsibility?”

The doctor said calmly with a gentle smile, “I am sorry, I wasn’t in the hospital and I came the fastest I could, after receiving the call.
I know it is tough, but take a deep breath and calm down.”

“Calm down?! What if your son was in this room right now, would you calm down? If you felt that you would lose your son, what would you do?”
said the father angrily.

The doctor smiled again and replied: “I believe that life and death are in the hands of God and we can only do so much.
Go and pray for your son, we will do our best by God’s grace.”

“Sympathy is so much easier than empathy. It is easy to dismiss someone else’s trials because they aren’t your own”, muttered the father.

After a long while, the doctor came out of the operating room. “I’ve got good news! Your son is saved! If you have any questions please ask the nurse.”
And without waiting for the father’s reply, he immediately rushed off.

“What a cold and unfeeling man!” exclaimed the man, “He couldn’t even wait a few minutes so that I could ask him about my son.”

Hearing him, the nurse replied, “The doctor’s son has been extremely ill for many weeks, but as soon as he received the call about your son,
he immediately rushed to the hospital. Now that he is confident that your son is safe, the doctor's hurrying back to be with his son.”

How many times do we make wrong assumptions, when we only look at things from our own point of view?
Just as we expect empathy from others, it would fare us even better if we can empathise with others as well.
Let’s make it a point to give others the benefit of doubt and…