Innovation Crash Course - Idris Mootee

15-min Crash course in innovation

Idris MooteeCEO Idea Couture Inc.

So you’re stuck?

Copyright 2008 by Idris Mootee All rights reserved.

You’re running out of ideas from your menu?


The quality of our thinking suffers because of your ethnocentrism


Ideas happen at the intersection of different things


Your thinking is limited by your theories about gender differences


Your thinking is limited by your theories about the world


Your thinking is limited by bounded awareness


Your thinking is limited by theories about other people


You have faulty judgment of risks and make poor risk trade-offs


Cognitive blinders mean despite easily accessible information you still fail to see or seek it


What are you doing to avoid being foresight-deficient?


What are the best ways to avoid hindsight bias?


Innovation always falls right between the big idea and the ability to put that idea into action


Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem.


"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way." —Edward de Bono


“Creativity is dreaming up new things. Innovation is doing new things.”


—Theodore Levitt

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again, yet expecting different results.”


—Albert Einstein

"Where all think alike, no one thinks very much." —Walter Lippman


"Great is the human who has not lost his childlike heart." — Mencius


“I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I am frightened of old ones.”

—John Cage


—Woody Allen

“If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.”Copyright 2008 by Idris Mootee All rights reserved.

It is not how to get innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get the “old” ones out


"Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference.“

—Nolan Bushnell


"All it takes is one idea to solve an impossible problem." —Robert H. Schuller


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