According to Lodestar, a consulting firm that helps companies build, manage and sustain innovation capacity, successful innovators/inventors possess these 10 key characteristics:
- Persistence
- Passion and intellectual curiosity
- Independent minded, willingness to go against the grain
- Ability to recognize and combine patterns into new ideas
- Intuitive yet analytical with an ability to understand and interpret business data
- Ability to ‘sell’ ideas and concepts
- Focused on the future
- Ability to draw on wide networks for perspective, advice and accomplishing tasks
- Tolerance for risk and ambiguity
- Willingness to fail and learn from failure
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