This document discusses the power of ideas and how to foster innovation. It notes that ideas are not simple or the work of lone geniuses, but take time to develop through experimentation and connections between people. It suggests that leaders should focus on promoting autonomy, mastery and purpose to create an environment that incubates ideas and allows for creativity and experimentation. Execution is important to realize the potential of ideas.

1. An Idea: Stronger
than All the Armies in
the World

3. Radical
Magic
It’s too hard
Lone genius
Spark
Eureka
Epiphany
New
Only for the Smart
Revolutionary
Flash

4. Radical
Magic
Lone genius
Spark
It’s too hard
Epiphany
Myths
Eureka
New
Only for the Smart
Revolutionary
Flash

5. Ideas

6. Ideas are networks

7. Ideas are sometimes
incomplete

8. Ideas take
time

9. You only learn when things start
breaking

10. Experimentation

11. Creating an innovative
environment

12. Design to maximize connection
of ideas and people

13. Design to
incubate
ideas

14. Design to foster creativity and
experimentation

15. Approach

16. Promotion
Prevention

17. What leaders can do?

18. Money is not the answer

19. Autonomy

20. Mastery

21. Purpose

22. Execution
Innovators Ship, Dreamers Don’t

23. If you take a man as he should be,
you make him capable of becoming
what he can be.
Viktor Frankl - 1972

24. Brian Gryth
E-mail:
brian.gryth@sos.state.co.us
or
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