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

A next-generation innovation writer and thought leader worth watching.

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

There is what Steve Blank calls the stage where you are searching for a scalable business model. Then, there is the stage when you have found that model and need to scale it. In the former stage you have to have a "beginner's mind," be in learning mode, and expect to learn things you didn't anticipate.

It would be fun too to put some of the great philosophers and political scientists of the past couple centuries into a time machine, have them look at the world today, and see what they think. Imagine Schumpeter, Malthus, Hobbes, Nietzsche, Marx, and more! That would be good fun.

Every great idea emerges out of a process of trial-and-error experimentation.

I've come to the conclusion that the core characteristic that separates companies that get innovation from those that don't is a simple word: curiosity.