How Alien Thinking Can Help You With Breakthrough Ideas feat. Michael Wade

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc · Oct 22, 2021 · 49m

For the past decade, Michael Wade, professor of innovation and strategy at IMD Business School, and his co-authors studied the thought process of inventors, scientists, doctors, entrepreneurs, and artists. The product of this collaboration is the book A.L.I.E.N. Thinking: The Unconventional Path To Breakthrough Ideas. Wade and his colleagues learned that these people’s out-of-the-world ideas helped them to make leaps and bounds in discovering game-changing solutions. In this episode, Michael talks about the five patterns of thinking that distinguish these innovators from the rest of us. He…