Metacool: Innovation Principles
Metacool has a great list of innovation principles. My favorite is number 4:
"Prototype as if you are right. Listen as if you are wrong."
Here is their complete list:
- Principle 1: Experience the world instead of talking about experiencing the world
- Principle 2: See and hear with the mind of a child
- Principle 3: Always ask: "How do we want people to feel after they experience this?"
- Principle 4: Prototype as if you are right. Listen as if you are wrong.
- Principle 5: Anything can be prototyped. You can prototype with anything.
- Principle 6: Live life at the intersection
- Principle 7: Develop a taste for the many flavors of innovation
- Principle 8: Most new ideas aren't
- Principle 9: Killing good ideas is a good idea
- Principle 10: Baby steps often lead to big leaps
- Principle 11: Everyone needs time to innovate
- Principle 12: Instead of managing, try cultivating
- Principle 13: Do everything right, and you'll still fail
- Principle 14: Failure sucks, but instructs
- Principle 15: Celebrate errors of commission. Stamp out errors of omission.
- Principle 16: Grok the gestalt of teams
- Principle 17: It's not the years, it's the mileage
- Principle 18: Learn to orbit the hairball
- Principle 19: Have a point of view
- Principle 20: Be remarkable
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