Innovation Flow

We know that innovators combine multiple skills and thinking styles - divergent and convergent thinking styles, left and right brain skills, creative thinking and entrepreneurial thinking etc. I realized that the super successful innovators do something lot more complex than that - combine four distinct personalities. The four personalities are not only distinct but also conflicting in certain aspects. If you wonder how they manage to do this, believe me, you are not alone - it took me six years of study of the personality profile of innovators across different domains to understand this. Here I wish to share my insights on the complex, multi-dimensional personality of an Innovator.  (Image - The Hindu God  Brahma, who created the universe and set it in motion, is depicted with four faces. Brahma represents the infinite spirit, and is one of the three primary Vedic Gods (others being Shiva the destroyer and Vishnu the protector) known as the Trimurtis.) ...