THINKING CLOCKWISE

A Field Guide for the Innovative Leader

By Dennis Stauffer

Minneapolis: MinneApplePress, 2005

ISBN: 0-9640429-3-2

Table of Contents

Clockwise Thinking

Insight Trumps Knowledge
Clockwise Defined
The Insight Loop
The Knowledge Loop
Harnessing Feedback
A Feedback Matrix
Two Ways of Thinking
Clockwise Values
Counterclockwise Values
Counterclockwise Attributes
Clockwise Attributes

Innovative Leadership

Building an Innovation Engine
Innovation Environment
Thinking Sets the Environment
The Clockwise Organization
Innovative Leadership Attributes
Finding Balance
The Big Stuff
Added Benefits
Clockwise Accountability
Making Success Inevitable

“The quest for knowledge and insight is like climbing a mountain. You start alone among the trees and ravines. Then as you get to the heights, you see others who have been climbing different routes yet getting to the same place. Dennis Stauffer has found a great route to understanding the thinking processes that lead to innovation and change, as well as the process that stalls people into stagnant spirals.
Thinking Clockwise is concise, easy to read, and packed with insights, wisdom, and examples of how people think and why some environments facilitate change, while others poison it.”

–Art Fry,

3M Corporate Scientist
Inventor of Post-It Notes