Quiz 6

Question 1

What are “originals”?

Answer 1

non-conformers, have new ideas and take action to champion them
late to the party
feel doubt and fear
have lots of bad ideas
quick to start slow to finish

Question 2

What are the failure rates for first-movers vs. improvers? Is the first-mover advantage real?

Answer 2

mostly a myth

Question 3

According to Adam Grant, is procrastinating helpful or harmful for productivity? And for creativity

Answer 3

a moderate amount can be helpful

Question 4

creative abrasion

Answer 4

ability to create a marketplace of ideas through debate and discourse, heated and constructive arguments to foster improvements

Question 5

creative agility

Answer 5

being able to test and refine the ideas, through quick pursuit, reflection and adjustment
running series of experiments rather than pilots

Question 6

creative resolution

Answer 6

doing decision making in a way that combines opposable ideas to reconfigure them in new combinations to produce a solution that is new and useful

Question 7

What are some of the capabilities at Pixar, as discussed by Linda Hill, that makes it a creative company

Answer 7

working off each other and never finalizing everything until the film was complete

Question 8

How did Google’s infrastructure group approach its prototyping challenge?

Answer 8

allowed different alternatives to pop up and play themselves out within two groups to form constructive meetings debating the design of the new system