The Innovation Mindset Playbook

Mindsets are our beliefs about ourselves and our abilities to act in the world; they are our cognitive approaches to opportunities, challenges, and setbacks. Mindsets can be shaped, crafted, practised, and learned. You can have multiple mindsets and complex combinations. Mindsets can shift quickly and evolve and change over time as well.

Temperament is our inborn biological predisposition to specific emotional responses and activity levels. It forms the foundation of our personality but is less malleable than our mindset. Temperments can be managed and typically evolve more slowly than mindsets. 

Personality is a complex combination of our temperament, experiences and mindsets. It encompasses our characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving. Typically, people have a single personality that evolves over their lifetime.

Mindset, temperament and personality are complex and the quest to understand them from a scientific perspective continues. The descriptions above are not scientific definitions but general comments.

The 10 Innovation Mindsets Framework

This framework uses specific missions to unlock and develop ten critical mindsets for innovation. 

Missions are created for researchers, innovators and innovation leaders using the 5D innovation Framework methodology.  Researchers, innovators and innovation leaders use the missions to practice and develop their innovation mindset.