Making conscious
assumptions is a key tool of a
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creative
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thinker. "No great
discovery is made without a bold guess,"
said Isaac Newton.
Assumptive thinking is not the same as guessing though.
Making an assumption is more like using a tentative step.
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4 WHYs of True Success
Assume that you are in a completely new
situation. What would things look like to you?
Assume that you did something in a different
way. How would it work? What would the consequences be?
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Work
Smart and Hard
Simulation Games
"InnoBall" and "InnoChess"
Innovation Football (Innoball)
and
Innovation Chess (Innochess) are breakthrough
business games that help
disruptive innopreneurs achieve great
success in the real world. These simulation games develop as a sequence of
assumed moves by innovators and their opponents. They help you to:
Albert
Einstein's Method
Albert Einstein is famous for
making assumptions and thinking out their implications. Having assumed that
he was riding on the back of a sunbeam, travelling through the universe with
the speed of light, Einstein tried to
imagine how things would look to him.
The eventual result was the General Theory of Relativity. "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited,"
advised Albert Einstein. "We don't need to think
more, we need to
think differently."
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BE MAD
Step Out of Your Shoes
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Change hats
and your thinking mode.
Stepping out of your everyday shoes and into the shoes of others may help
you surface
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new insights to a problem...
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