“Innovator’s DNA.” Here are the first three: • An unusual ability to associate. They could see connections between concepts, problems, or questions not obvious to others. • An annoying habit of consistently asking “what if.” And “why not” and “how come you’re doing it this way.” These visionaries scoured out the limits of the status quo, poking it, prodding it, shooting upward to the 40,000-foot view of something to see if it made any sense and then plummeting back to earth with suggestions. • An unquenchable desire to tinker and experiment. The entrepreneurs might land on an idea,
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