→ 3 Levels of Your Creativity 

• → Creative ideas do not arise spontaneously but are born out of conscious, semiconscious, and → unconscious mental sorting, grouping, matching and melding. Interpersonal interactions at the conscious level stimulate and enhance these activities.  >>>

→ Creative Dissatisfaction  >>>

→ 3 Pillars of Creativity

• Social interaction is especially critical for innovation teams of individuals responsible for delivering → new products , services, and organizational processes.  >>>

→ Innovation Is Love

→ Innovation-friendly Organization

• Along the innovation process, the innovation pattern occurs as fractals, with small decision cycles embedded in large ones, and with individual choices made within the confines of a hierarchy of prior, larger scope individual or group choices  >>>

• Creative cross-functional team → team  activity is not confined to the initial stages of the overall innovative effort but is essential to such downstream activities as launching of a new product/service, implementing a new compensation system in an organization, or improving the service-profit chain.  >>>

• At any point in an innovation process, → team leaders need to exercise the → loose-tight approach – manage both the expansion of thoughts that gives rise to potentially creative alternatives and the homing of a viable option.

→ The Jazz of Innovation: 11 Guiding Principles