Innovative breakthroughs are the result of the interplay between convergent and divergent modes of thinking.

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There are a slew of organizational and cultural changes that accompany the transition to a new technology, including modes of accounting, and thinking about how applications are organized to deliver business services.

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Boosting troop numbers to deter illegal logging and ranching would thus be a return to two old modes of military thinking: defending the forests from invaders and extending the reach of the state.

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There needs to be some of the attributes you mentioned in (3) and more, such as: reflection and pattern-seeking, embracing ambiguity, tolerance for risk taking, iterative and collaborative approaches, experimentation and learning (failing forward), seeing the familiar in new ways, asking provocative questions and uncovering insights as well as many modes of thinking and organizational behaviors.

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