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Introduction: Seize the Vuja dé
Chapter 1: Scenario Planning: The Power of What if? Thinking
Chapter 2: Creativity: Bearing Fruit on the Idea Farm
Chapter 3: Hubris vs Humility: Why Executive Incompetence is Not our Biggest Problem
Chapter 4: Excellence Fatigue and the Normalization of Defects
Chapter 5: The Problem with “Better”: How Overvaluation Stifles Innovation
Chapter 6: Seven Ways to Combat Overvaluation and Insular Elitism
Chapter 7: Becoming a Talent Rich Organization: Why Development Trumps Training
Chapter 8: Borrowing from Business: Why Business Thinking is Not the Answer
Chapter 9: The Downside of Organizational Maturity
Chapter 10: Why Benchmarking Doesn’t Result in Breakthrough Innovation
Chapter 11: Deep Change: 3 Drivers, 2 Amplifiers, 1 Game-Changer
Chapter 12: Redeeming the “F” Word: Why Failure is Not a Dirty Word
Chapter 13: Toward a New Strategic Narrative for North American Missions
Chapter 14: Problem Solving Through Crowdsourcing
Chapter 15: Closing the Feedback Loop
Chapter 16: Complicated vs Complex: What’s the Difference and Why Does it Matter?
Chapter 17: Full Circle Innovation
Chapter 18: Why Traditional Brainstorming Rarely Produces Breakthroughs
Chapter 19: Leveraging Habits for Personal and Organizational Effectiveness