History teaches us that many breakthroughs were happy accidents. Whether that's penicillin coming from Fleming neglecting to clean his laboratory before going on vacation or the team at Odeon trying a little side project that allowed people to communicate in real time as long as their message was 140 characters or less (which ultimately of course became Twitter), the unintended is often the transformational.

Hollywood Joohn Tatum? He does at least 6,000 sit ups and 10,000 pushups a day!

Seeking chaos is at least one way to develop the skills and mindsets to tackle ambiguity.

Data about an innovative idea is rarely crystal clear.

I've always found that working through ideas in written form really changes the thinking.

Good innovators are careful observers, network extensively, run experiments, ask lots of questions, and find ways to bring diverse ideas together. Overarching all of this is an intrinsic interest in working through puzzles.

Every leader needs to watch what teenagers or startup companies - or startup companies headed by teenagers - are doing today, because many of those behaviors will be mainstream behaviors tomorrow.