Killer Innovations

Segment 1: Seeing The Big Picture To Innovate

Key Skills:

• Boundry Crosser:  Success will come to people with a very wide and multi-disciplinary backgrounds
• Metaphor Maker: Using methaphors to capture the connections/similarities and therefore the vision
• Pattern Watcher:  The abilty to pick out meaningful trends from the flood of information

Segment 2: Killer Question Of The Week

Create metahpors by:

1) Answer the following the question:

• "What are the assumptions that define the industry?"

2) Look for metaphors by:

• Comparing the assumptions with other industries.
• What are the breakthroughs in those industries?
• Create a metaphor for each breakthrough by tying it back to your industry.

Segment 3:  Closing Thoughts

"The world is emblematic.  Parts of speach are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind."  Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most frutiful potentials.  Its effeciency verges on magic - its a tool for creation that God left inside when He made man."  Jose Ortega Gasset

MP3 of the May 28th Podcast

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