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the power of contradictions.
Insights transform how we see; we look for different things in keeping with our new story.
In my sample, experts did become trapped by their assumptions.
The next question—and there is always a next question (you never get to the last question because there isn’t a last question)
The connection path thrives on having lots of ideas swirling around and on making accidental linkages. The more swirl and turbulence, the greater the chance for a discovery.
Recognitional decisions depend on decades of experience to build up hundreds and thousands of patterns.
the concept of an ambidextrous organization—one that pursues efficiency and reduces errors for mature products while encouraging innovation and creativity in other areas. The trick is to keep the two approaches separate. The efficiency group and the innovation group would report to the same manager but would otherwise run independently of each othe
... See morethe doctrine of continual transformation runs counter to the emergence of insights. Advocating for continual or even periodic transformation makes it into a routine to be performed. In contrast, insights are accidental.
The downside of checklists is that they intentionally induce mindlessness. We just have to follow the steps and not think about them. The important thinking has already been done by the checklist designers. When we follow checklists and procedure manuals, we disengage our active thinking processes, just the reverse of the inquiring mind-set that ge
... See moreusing confusions, contradictions, and conflicts as springboards to insights. Usually we feel frustrated when we run into these kinds of disruptions, but they represent openings for making discoveries. We just have to replace our feelings of consternation with curiosity.