Bo Adams's List: iDiploma Cohort Reading

• in organizations where innovation has achieved cult status, execution takes a back seat to invention
• collaboration can be derailed by individual, disciplinary, and organizational concerns—all of which can be valid.
• The skills of the inventor are rarely those of the integrator.
• In the quest for the next innovation, an organization need neither marginalize its innovation capability nor place it on a pedestal. Regular interaction between the innovation group and the implementation group yields the best innovations.

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• It’s one of my theories that when people give advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.
• These are things I’ve learned over almost a decade of trying to figure out how to make art, but a funny thing happened when I started sharing them with others — I realized that they aren’t just for artists. They’re for everyone.
• These ideas are for everyone who’s trying to inject some creativity into their life and their work. (That should describe all of us.)

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• Trying something without succeeding is not failing. It's producing a result. What you do with the result -- that is, what you've learned -- is the important thing.
• You construct reality by how you choose to interpret your experiences.

• And design is about intent.
• Intent means purpose; something highly designed was crafted with intention in every creative decision.
• Overarching intent is easy. The hard part is driving that conscious decision-making throughout every little choice in the creative process. Good designers have a clear sense of the overall purpose of their creation; great designers can say, “This is why we made that decision” about a thousand details.
• Three Design Evasions
• The first evasion: Preserving
• The second evasion: Copying
• The third evasion: Delegating

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