What sort of person is it who can shape new ideas and bring them to life as businesses? Put another way, is an innovator's temperament born or is it built?
We say it's built.
Several years ago, Clayton Christenson and his colleagues argued in The Innovator's DNA that habitually inventive people share personalities in common -- a taste for networking with other smart people, a quality of intense observation, a reflex for asking questions and a comfort with experimentation.
To read the original article: The Daily Innovator: Born or Built? | Kevin McDermott
