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Innovation Insights
by Stephen Shapiro

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Podcast E19: What Innovators Can Learn from Magicians

In this episode, I share three useful tricks every innovator should steal from magicians. Then I share one of my favorite lenses – #24: VARIATIONS.

The three tricks to steal are:

  1. Don’t trust the brain
  2. Start with the impossible solution.
  3. Performance is as important as the method.

I also share why simplification is often the best form of innovation. The most complicated solutions is not always the best solution.

Then I talk about lens #24: VARIATIONS.

The premise of this lens is that you should not design your solutions with a one-size-fit-all strategy. Or in other words, design to handle the exception, not for the exception.

Download the lenses from Invisible Solutions

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Learn more about the “Best Practices are Stupid” book where you can read my “Making the Impossible Possible” technique