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what’s most important to you in your career?

Most often, innovation is not the result of a sudden moment of realization, anyway, but incremental steps toward improvement. Even groundbreaking paradigm shifts are most often the consequence of many small moves in the right direction instead of one big idea. This is why the search for small differences is key. It is such an important skill to see

Dunbar witnessed important breakthroughs live, and saw that the labs most likely to turn unexpected findings into new knowledge for humanity made a lot of analogies, and made them from a variety of base domains. The labs in which scientists had more diverse professional backgrounds were the ones where more and more varied analogies were offered, an

Howard Gardner’s Creating Minds.

The danger for high-achieving people is that they’ll unconsciously allocate their resources to activities that yield the most immediate, tangible accomplishments.

jumping from exploration to exploitation, and back again, is almost always productive.

there is something about the way decisions get made in successful organizations that sows the seeds of eventual failure.

Though the business world glorifies big disruptive ideas, in reality most progress is achieved by implementing hundreds or thousands of minor improvements that can have a big cumulative impact.