Innovative Thinking  ●  Inventive Thinking Break Rules         Vadim Kotelnikov    Managers succeed by following rules. → Innovators succeed by breaking rules.     Cross-functional Innovation Teams A diversity of ideas and opinions are needed to generate high quality solutions. Innovation depends upon the individual and collective expertise of employees. In the new era of → systemic innovation, it is more important for an organization to be cross-functionally excellent than functionally excellent. In addition to formal planning at the business level, best-practice companies use crosscutting initiatives on major issues in order to challenge assumptions and open up the organization to new thinking... More Leverage Opposite Forces Synergizing opposites unleashes power on both personal and organizational level. To be successful in today's complex, rapidly changing and highly competitive world, you must embrace, manage and synergize critical opposites.  >>> You can inspire innovation and find a strategic competitive advantage in an organizational and cultural context by seeking to leverage, rather than diminish, opposite forces. People with different cultural, educational, scientific, and business backgrounds will bring different frames of reference to a problem and can spark an exciting and dynamic cross-pollination of ideas.  >>> Pay due attention to developing strong and innovative individuals, functions and stand-alone businesses because synergized diversity only works when the elements of that diversity are strong and innovative in their own right.       BE MAD ‒ Be Entrepreneurial, Make A Difference! Vadim Kotelnikov 1000ventures Hell, there are no rules here ‒ we're trying to accomplish something. Thomas Edison Move fast and break things. Mark Zuckerberg Facebook The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.  >>> Larry Ellison Oracle Break rules and "fail forward" so that change is part of the culture, and little setback is experienced. Tom Kelley IDEO If everybody else is doing it one way, you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction. Sam Walton Wal-Mart   Tweet      From the same bunch of the keys to Innovation Success 360                                 Competitive Innovation      Tweet