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# Seeing The Big Picture To Innovate
- URL: https://www.philmckinney.com/seeing-the-big-picture-to-innovate/
- Published: 2007-05-28T14:40:20.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-07T18:29:22.000Z
- Author: Phil McKinney
- Tags: Past Shows, Studio Sessions, big picture, focused, innovations, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-03-26 05:08

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The ability to keep perspective while continuously innovating is a challenge. We tend to get ourselves hyper focused and risk overlooking really great ideas. So who do keep the big picture perspective while still staying focused to create innovations that have impact?

**Segment 1: Seeing The Big Picture To Innovate**

Key Skills:

- Boundry Crosser: Success will come to people with a very wide and multi-disciplinary backgrounds
- Metaphor Maker: Using methaphors to capture the connections/similarities and therefore the vision
- Pattern Watcher: The abilty to pick out meaningful trends from the flood of information

**Segment 2: Killer Question Of The Week**

Create metahpors by:

> 1) Answer the following the question:

\[shareable\]What are the assumptions that define the industry?\[/shareable\]

- Comparing the assumptions with other industries.
- What are the breakthroughs in those industries?
- Create a metaphor for each breakthrough by tying it back to your industry.

**Segment 3: Closing Thoughts**

*“The world is emblematic. Parts of speach are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.”* Ralph Waldo Emerson

*“The metaphor is perhaps one of man’s most frutiful potentials. Its effeciency verges on magic – its a tool for creation that God left inside when He made man.”* Jose Ortega Gasset