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TIP: Use space & stuff around you

to try things—or just to get
comfortable & creative!
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Feelings Cube
TIPS
ANGRY
a ball and put it in the middle
WONDERING
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Find Feelings!
As you roll with the Compass Cube,
CARING
what role might these feelings have?
SCARED
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INNOVATORS’
COMPASS
Mapping different practices with
INNOVATORS’ COMPASS Some Powerful Practices

Innovators’ Compass captures the common Stanford Design Thinking
compass behind practices for making many Daylight Design thinking
different things better—in powerful questions Adaptive Leadership
and words accessible to any person in any Theory U
moment. Systems Thinking
Nonviolent Communication
You can also use Innovators’ Compass with Appreciative Inquiry
any of these practices (or others). Experiential Learning
Reflective Practice
Scientific Method
Lean Development
Define Ideate
Find patterns Presencing
Design Principles Dream
Interpret Prediction
Co-sensing
Map the system
Needs
Abstract conceptualization
So what?
Hypothesis / Conclusion
Analysis
Learn
Notice
Empathize Prototype
Learn from people Make tangible
Observe Observation Observations Co-creating
Co-initiating Design
Understand the system Test Now what?
Feelings Intervene Build
Discover Co-evolving
Reflective observation Take action
Concrete experience Requests
What? Destiny/Delivery
Question Active Experimentation
Measure Experiment
INNOVATORS’
Mapping different practices with
Innovators’ Compass captures the common compass behind process “maps” for making
many different things better. You can follow any of these “maps” that moves you forward!
The numbers on the Compass follow the first pattern, which is always a safe bet.
You can also use Innovators’ Compass with any of these practices (or others).
Design Thinking, Scientific Method &

Agile & Lean Startups
most problem-solving/reflection methods
Tinkering & Improvising “Accidents” & “Sudden genius”
INNOVATORS’
Nurturing powerful abilities with
Looking at things from all directions, and keeping going till we’ve made them better,
naturally brings out the best in us—from our hearts, to our minds, to our hands.
And, as we use them, we further develops these powerful elements of our skill and character.
intuition vision
insight optimism
connection imagination
compassion
empathy
observation resourcefulness
listening experimentalism
inquiry effectiveness
Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, Creativity are the 4Cs of 21st Century learning, http://www.p21.org/4Cs
Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, Creativity are the 4Cs of 21st Century Learning (p21.org)
INNOVATORS’
Keeping space to explore with
Young children are pretty much designed for learning and figuring things out when they
don’t have experience or answers.
They tune closely into people around them—especially grownups they’re trying to figure out.
They take an hour to walk a block—observing everything with all their senses and asking why
again and again. They draw what’s important to them again and again, too. They dream
up more, and more creative ideas than many of us grownups around them. And they try
things, without fear of failure.
Of course that gets more challenging as our challenges get bigger, and there’s less space
for these things in life, school, and work. A dream for the Innovators’ Compass is to let
anyone make the space to explore in these ways, over seconds or months, in any situation.
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INNOVATORS’ COMPASS

People Finding Better Ways Forward

TOOLS & GRAPHICS

PAST & PRESENT

What’s happening? Why? What’s a step to try?

Starting something or feeling stuck? Use five questions

Starting something or feeling stuck? Use five questions

Define Center on Dream

3. What matters most? 4. What ways are there?

PAST & PRESENT

*Some of our feelings

see what matters most dream bold ideas

connect, integrate, or collaboratively

find fresh insights have many

See the PAST & Center on See the

analyze carefully find resourceful ways

empathize and connect experiment or tinker

look and listen curiously, get things done

are there? What ways

PROMPTS & GAMES

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most? there? most? there? most? there?

? What’s happening? ? What’s happening?

Notice Wind down Notice Wind down

? What’s happening? ? What’s happening?

I’m finding Move forward. I’m finding Move forward.

I’m finding Move forward. I’m finding Move forward.

I’m finding Powerful questions I’m finding Powerful questions

Think small: $1, 1 minute!

Anyone and anything can help!

Make something better

Try, question, and change things.

• Mix it up! Try tapping everyone’s

Tools (Cube 2). Or roll a feeling

PEOPLE #innovatorscompass &

That’s how many creative methods

out for now! Move,make.

(and more!) Try them as you explore

Tap everyone’s 10 Tools!

Think Say SSay

TIP: Use space & stuff around you

what role might these feelings have?

INNOVATORS’ COMPASS Some Powerful Practices

Design Thinking, Scientific Method &

Tinkering & Improvising “Accidents” & “Sudden genius”

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