Although knowledge is valuable, it is limited. In contrast, our imagination is limitless, allowing us to rethink problems and create solutions. Our imagination plays a critical role in finding new opportunities, rethinking our businesses, and finding growth pathways. However, many companies are losing the ability to imagine. How can organizations harness this skill and keep it alive? Martin Reeves, Chairman of the BCG Henderson Institute, draws on the experience and insights of CEOs from different industries. In this episode, he talks about the process of sparking ideas and bringing them to life. He summarizes the imagination machine process to these six steps:The Seduction: opening yourself to surprisesThe Idea: how to generate oneThe Collision: rethinking your idea based on real-world feedbackThe Epidemic: spreading an evolving idea to othersThe New Ordinary: turning your novel idea into an accepted realityThe Encore: repeating the process—over, and over againListen as he defines the difference between an incremental change and pivots essential to transformation—especially during a crisis.Episode Quotes:Is the book Imagination Machine an exercise designed to help readers identify opportunities systematically, and then exploit those opportunities according to a formula?So this new book, the Imagination Machine, double clicks on visionary strategy, the creative element of strategy. Which is also the remarkable property of companies to imagine something that doesn't exist, which all founders of companies did. And then to cause that to become a new everyday reality.How can you be intentional with your imaginative process and strategy for acquiring information?Imagination is triggered by the contact with otherness, things that don't fit our current mental models, our current ways of doing things. And some organizations explicitly seek out that otherness.How can you achieve the Renaissance perspective as a team?Hire the diversity of skills that you're going to need, not just to run a business, but to reinvent a business. They can make sure that they have ambidextrous top teams. They may not be able to be always able to give good prescriptions in fast-changing businesses, but they can have very good questions.Time Code Guide00:01:29 Understanding the paradox of the book’s title00:03:14 Explaining general ideas about the book: Your Strategy Needs a Strategy00:05:21 Ambidextrous organizations, allocation of resources for innovation, and classic mix of portfolio00:08:40 Defining imaginative and counterfactual thinking00:11:03 Mental models for exploitation and exploration00:13:10 Incremental and Transformative Innovation00:15:24 The first step to imaginative thinking: surprise00:18:48 Being selective in acquiring data to guide your decision-making00:24:13 Controlled hallucination as a mental model00:29:14 Putting aside time for reflection and counterfactual thinking00:31:01 How can stress get in the way of creative thinking00:34:38 How to conduct interviews to help you hire people that'll fit your team's imaginative process00:36:33 How can legacy organizations encourage and incentivize people on the team that maybe resistant to learning?00:43:36 How do you cascade cognitive diversity to the human resources department when recruiting?00:45:17 Designing a corporate script that embodies counterfactual and ambidextrous thinkingShow LinksGuest ProfileSpeaker Profile at TEDProfessional File at the World Economic ForumMartin Reeves on LinkedInMartin Reeves on TwitterHis WorkOfficial Website of the Book Imagination MachineThe Resilient Enterprise: Thriving Amid Uncertainty (Inspiring the Next Game)The Imagination Machine: How to Spark New Ideas and Create Your Company's FutureWinning the '20s: A Leadership Agenda for the Next Decade (Inspiring the Next Game)Global Recession: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review (HBR Insights)Mastering the Science of Organizational Change (Inspiring the Next Game)Coronavirus: Leadership and Recovery: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business ReviewYour Strategy Needs a Strategy: How to Choose and Execute the Right Approach Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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