Lunch Keynote What A Great Idea by Janel

Charles Chip Thompson

Began working at Gortex- cultre of "yes and". Its trial and ERROR not trial and rightness.
Worked at Epcot where it was a culture of "yes but"

If you want to be innovative you need to be yes-and first and yes-but later (start curious then move to critical)

Key to solving a problem is asking why 5 times. Why is this a problem get a response, why is that a problem,response, why,response, etc. BECAUSE I SAID SO does not count as a response

Einstein- difficult problems cannot be solved with the same mode of thinking that created them.

Einstein- I have no special gift. I am just passionately curious.

Turn negatives into opportunities. How can the problem be fixed?

Ask- what would we never do? See where this leads when the answers are analyzed and pondered. Embrace the power of the opposite (creative destruction)

Human beings strive to achieve immortality
1. By having kids
2. By planting trees
3. By having ideas and acting on them.

Go forth and achieve immortality.