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
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