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