Comments for Innovator Mindset http://blog.innovatormindset.com Thinking Innovation Leading Innovation Doing Innovation Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:48:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on The Innovator’s Secret Weapon – Empathy Part 2 by The Innovator’s Secret Weapon – Empathy Part 2 | Innovator Mindset | Tidbits .titbits or Tipbits ? | Scoop.it http://blog.innovatormindset.com/2012/03/13/the-innovators-secret-weapon-empathy-part-2/#comment-200 The Innovator’s Secret Weapon – Empathy Part 2 | Innovator Mindset | Tidbits .titbits or Tipbits ? | Scoop.it Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:48:21 +0000 http://blog.innovatormindset.com/?p=1181#comment-200 [...] background-position: 50% 0px; background-color:#222222; background-repeat : no-repeat; } blog.innovatormindset.com - Today, 2:48 [...] [...] background-position: 50% 0px; background-color:#222222; background-repeat : no-repeat; } blog.innovatormindset.com – Today, 2:48 [...]

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]]> Comment on Origins of this Blog by Dennis Stauffer http://blog.innovatormindset.com/origins-of-this-blog/#comment-197 Dennis Stauffer Fri, 09 Mar 2012 02:56:57 +0000 http://insightfusion.com/blog/?page_id=13#comment-197 Sure, you have my permission to use anything in the blog archives, up to and including current posts. Please use the following attribution: Dennis Stauffer is an innovation expert who works with individuals, teams and organizations to boost their capacity to innovate, with a focus on tbe human side of innovation. He delivers innovation keynotes, seminars and coaching internationally, based in part on his own research into the mindset of succsessful innovators. Please also link back the blog or the Innovator Mindset site. Those links are: http://www.innovatormindset.com http://blog.innovatormindset.com Regards, Dennis Dennis Stauffer, Chief Innovator Innovator Mindset 18300 34th Ave. N. Minneapolis, MN 55447 Office: 763-744-1036 (USA) Mobile 612-619-0694 (USA) InnovatorMindset.com Sure, you have my permission to use anything in the blog archives, up to and including current posts. Please use the following attribution:

Dennis Stauffer is an innovation expert who works with individuals, teams and organizations to boost their capacity to innovate, with a focus on tbe human side of innovation. He delivers innovation keynotes, seminars and coaching internationally, based in part on his own research into the mindset of succsessful innovators.

Please also link back the blog or the Innovator Mindset site. Those links are:

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Regards,
Dennis

Dennis Stauffer, Chief Innovator

Innovator Mindset

18300 34th Ave. N.
Minneapolis, MN 55447

Office: 763-744-1036 (USA)
Mobile 612-619-0694 (USA)

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]]> Comment on Ten Lessons Innovators Can Learn from Fishers by milton kamwendo http://blog.innovatormindset.com/2012/02/27/ten-lessons-innovators-can-learn-from-fishers/#comment-195 milton kamwendo Sat, 03 Mar 2012 12:47:43 +0000 http://blog.innovatormindset.com/?p=1165#comment-195 Great article. Amazing insights. Perhaps the greatest lesson for me is one on action. Unless you are willing to take action and go to the river, nothing else matters. Great article. Amazing insights. Perhaps the greatest lesson for me is one on action. Unless you are willing to take action and go to the river, nothing else matters.

]]> Comment on Ten Lessons Innovators Can Learn from Fishers by Ten Lessons Innovators Can Learn from Fishers | Innovator Mindset | passion for innovation | Scoop.it http://blog.innovatormindset.com/2012/02/27/ten-lessons-innovators-can-learn-from-fishers/#comment-194 Ten Lessons Innovators Can Learn from Fishers | Innovator Mindset | passion for innovation | Scoop.it Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:35:50 +0000 http://blog.innovatormindset.com/?p=1165#comment-194 [...] background-position: 50% 0px; background-color:#000000; background-repeat : no-repeat; } blog.innovatormindset.com - Today, 6:35 [...] [...] background-position: 50% 0px; background-color:#000000; background-repeat : no-repeat; } blog.innovatormindset.com – Today, 6:35 [...]

]]> Comment on Innovation Essentials: A Fishing Analogy by Ask the experts for options, not solutions | The Jazz of Innovation | Scoop.it http://blog.innovatormindset.com/2012/02/13/innovation-essentials-a-fishing-analogy/#comment-191 Ask the experts for options, not solutions | The Jazz of Innovation | Scoop.it Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:53:45 +0000 http://blog.innovatormindset.com/?p=1159#comment-191 [...] background-color:#052f5c; background-repeat : no-repeat; } blog.innovatormindset.com - Today, 10:53 [...] [...] background-color:#052f5c; background-repeat : no-repeat; } blog.innovatormindset.com – Today, 10:53 [...]

]]> Comment on Innovation Essentials: A Fishing Analogy by Charlie Garland (@innovationator) http://blog.innovatormindset.com/2012/02/13/innovation-essentials-a-fishing-analogy/#comment-189 Charlie Garland (@innovationator) Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:56:59 +0000 http://blog.innovatormindset.com/?p=1159#comment-189 Might one call this "a new angle" on fishing? Sorry...couldn't resist :) But seriously, this is a great analogy, in my opinion. You've truly thought outside the box of this ageless metaphor, and enhanced it in a way that adds profound and valuable meaning to the concept that so many of us hear and almost immediately dismiss...simply because we've "heard it all before," and retain our "yeah, yeah...I get it" sort of attitudes. This new concept should cause people to think in a new way about the "fishing" lesson, and how it applies to their current and future situations. Another concept might be to go beyond just teaching someone to fish, or fishing for them, toward fishing WITH them. Thus, it shows how mentorship/coaching can be a supplemental and ongoing developmental variation on this same theme. Not only do you help them do it themselves, but you also help them continue to get better and better at it (e.g. perhaps to the point where THEY become proficient enough to teach others themselves). Even further outside the box, we may want to introduce the ideas of teaching a man how to hunt (in case they start getting sick of sushi all the time), how to cook (seafood rather than sushi), how to farm (we need a balanced diet, yes?), and how to distill (red or white?). You see, Dennis...you've set the wheels in motion again!! Thanks ;) Might one call this “a new angle” on fishing? Sorry…couldn’t resist :)

But seriously, this is a great analogy, in my opinion. You’ve truly thought outside the box of this ageless metaphor, and enhanced it in a way that adds profound and valuable meaning to the concept that so many of us hear and almost immediately dismiss…simply because we’ve “heard it all before,” and retain our “yeah, yeah…I get it” sort of attitudes. This new concept should cause people to think in a new way about the “fishing” lesson, and how it applies to their current and future situations.

Another concept might be to go beyond just teaching someone to fish, or fishing for them, toward fishing WITH them. Thus, it shows how mentorship/coaching can be a supplemental and ongoing developmental variation on this same theme. Not only do you help them do it themselves, but you also help them continue to get better and better at it (e.g. perhaps to the point where THEY become proficient enough to teach others themselves).

Even further outside the box, we may want to introduce the ideas of teaching a man how to hunt (in case they start getting sick of sushi all the time), how to cook (seafood rather than sushi), how to farm (we need a balanced diet, yes?), and how to distill (red or white?). You see, Dennis…you’ve set the wheels in motion again!! Thanks ;)

]]> Comment on For Innovators, It’s The Un-Serenity Prayer by David B. Harb http://blog.innovatormindset.com/2012/01/02/for-innovators-its-the-un-serenity-prayer/#comment-188 David B. Harb Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:48:16 +0000 http://blog.innovatormindset.com/?p=1104#comment-188 I just learned of your blog today. My first read was your blog about serenity. Upon reading it a second time, I am convinced that you may have this notion upside down. Before writing this, I went to the dictionary for "serene" and "courage". My thoughts were reinforced. Courage, Dennis, almost by definition, seems to require absolute serenity. Consider the courage of a Medal of Honor recipient, the courage of the inventor (Bell), or the courage of the perfector (Jobs). Who in the world could ever believe that those men or women could ever have, in that first instant, begun to act, or in their untiring continuation proceeded to act, without absolute peace and serenity that what they had set out to do was right, or cool, or great? How serene were you when you first decided to begin your blog? Nothing great has ever been done by a committee. It has always been that one special person. It then occurs to one that such greatness only comes with great and unwavering serenity. That's why it's so important in our lives to find it. I just learned of your blog today. My first read was your blog about serenity. Upon reading it a second time, I am convinced that you may have this notion upside down. Before writing this, I went to the dictionary for “serene” and “courage”. My thoughts were reinforced.
Courage, Dennis, almost by definition, seems to require absolute serenity. Consider the courage of a Medal of Honor recipient, the courage of the inventor (Bell), or the courage of the perfector (Jobs). Who in the world could ever believe that those men or women could ever have, in that first instant, begun to act, or in their untiring continuation proceeded to act, without absolute peace and serenity that what they had set out to do was right, or cool, or great? How serene were you when you first decided to begin your blog?

Nothing great has ever been done by a committee. It has always been that one special person. It then occurs to one that such greatness only comes with great and unwavering serenity. That’s why it’s so important in our lives to find it.

]]> Comment on An Innovation Lesson From American Idol by An Innovation Lesson From American Idol | The Jazz of Innovation | Scoop.it http://blog.innovatormindset.com/2012/01/30/an-innovation-lesson-from-american-idol/#comment-185 An Innovation Lesson From American Idol | The Jazz of Innovation | Scoop.it Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:21:35 +0000 http://blog.innovatormindset.com/?p=1152#comment-185 [...] background-color:#052f5c; background-repeat : no-repeat; } blog.innovatormindset.com - Today, 11:21 [...] [...] background-color:#052f5c; background-repeat : no-repeat; } blog.innovatormindset.com – Today, 11:21 [...]

]]> Comment on A Different Kind of Innovation Process Improvement by Dennis Stauffer http://blog.innovatormindset.com/2012/01/12/a-different-kind-of-innovation-process-improvement/#comment-183 Dennis Stauffer Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:02:01 +0000 http://blog.innovatormindset.com/?p=1125#comment-183 I couldn't agree more! I couldn’t agree more!

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