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    The document discusses pursuing innovation and the innovator's mindset. It emphasizes starting with people, not processes, and focusing on mindset over tools. The innovator's spirit involves embracing risk, striving for better, and viewing crises as opportunities. True innovation creates new solutions that solve problems and create value. Resetting core beliefs around candor, initiative, resolve, courage, leadership, and engagement can enable innovation. The biggest barrier to innovation is the bias against change.

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    The document discusses pursuing innovation and the innovator's mindset. It emphasizes starting with people, not processes, and focusing on mindset over tools. The innovator's spirit involves embracing risk, striving for better, and viewing crises as opportunities. True innovation creates new solutions that solve problems and create value. Resetting core beliefs around candor, initiative, resolve, courage, leadership, and engagement can enable innovation. The biggest barrier to innovation is the bias against change.

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    Discovering the Mindset

    to Pursue the Impossible


    ⒸCape Point Advisors, 2021 chuckswoboda.com
    Lessons learned on
    Cree’s journey from startup to
    global technology company

    ⒸCape Point Advisors, 2021 chuckswoboda.com


    My approach to Innovation

    Start with People not process

    Focus on Mindset not toolset

    ⒸCape Point Advisors, 2021 chuckswoboda.com


    The Innovator’s Spirit

    Beliefs than enable innovative behaviors

    • Embrace risk
    • Strive for better
    • View crisis as an opportunity

    ⒸCape Point Advisors, 2021 chuckswoboda.com


    Innovation is more than a new idea

    New
    +
    Solves problem
    +
    Creates value
    ⒸCape Point Advisors, 2021 chuckswoboda.com
    Resetting your core beliefs

    ⒸCape Point Advisors, 2021 chuckswoboda.com


    Candor

    Start with being honest about the facts

    Prioritize constructiveness over collegiality

    Embrace the Brutal Truth


    ⒸCape Point Advisors, 2021 chuckswoboda.com
    Initiative
    Cycles of learning are critical to innovation

    Don’t become so focused on being right,


    that you miss opportunities for success

    Don’t wait for perfection


    ⒸCape Point Advisors, 2021 chuckswoboda.com
    Resolve

    Give yourself no choice but to innovate

    Backup plans have negative value

    Make success the only option


    ⒸCape Point Advisors, 2021 chuckswoboda.com
    Courage

    There is no innovation without risk

    Resiliency must be learned

    Become unafraid of failure


    ⒸCape Point Advisors, 2021 chuckswoboda.com
    Leadership

    The future doesn’t just happen

    Boundary conditions are a choice

    There is no box
    ⒸCape Point Advisors, 2021 chuckswoboda.com
    Engagement

    Answers often lie in the details

    Innovation is messy

    Get your hands dirty


    ⒸCape Point Advisors, 2021 chuckswoboda.com
    Candor
    Engagement Initiative
    Innovation
    Leadership Resolve

    ⒸCape Point Advisors, 2020


    Courage chuckswoboda.com
    What is the biggest barrier to
    Innovation?

    ⒸCape Point Advisors, 2021 chuckswoboda.com


    The bias against change

    “The mind is like a rubber band; you can easily stretch it


    temporarily, but it snaps back to its resting position.
    We resist change.” - Jennifer Kunst

    ⒸCape Point Advisors, 2021 chuckswoboda.com


    Leading the LED Lighting
    Revolution

    ⒸCape Point Advisors, 2021 chuckswoboda.com


    Taking Lighting to the next level

    Not better light for the sake of better light

    Question: Does Human Centric Lighting


    solve a problem that the customer cares
    about and is willing to pay for?

    ⒸCape Point Advisors, 2021 chuckswoboda.com


    How to better translate research to
    practice?

    That is the wrong goal for DOE funded


    research. Focus on a BIG longer-term
    problem that needs to be solved

    ⒸCape Point Advisors, 2021 chuckswoboda.com


    Opportunity for small companies to lead
    the industry

    The big players are not going to change


    until they have to change.

    ⒸCape Point Advisors, 2021 chuckswoboda.com


    This is your chance to start

    the next revolution!


    ⒸCape Point Advisors, 2021 chuckswoboda.com

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