The Breakthrough Manifesto

Welcome to Breakthrough CHAPTER 1: Silence Your Cynic Toxic Effect #1: Death to Innovation Toxic Effect #2: Bye, Bye Diverse Ideas Toxic Effect #3: Shackles on the Mind CHAPTER 2: Strip Away Everything Check Yourself Question Orthodoxies Don't Believe Everything You Hear CHAPTER 3: Live with the Problem Look Before You Leap Try Passive Percolation Spend Your Time Wisely CHAPTER 4: Check Your Edge Expand Your Thinking Pursue the Unexpected Stretch Yourself CHAPTER 5: Enlist a Motley Crew Get Truly Motley Enlist All Members Row Like a Crew CHAPTER 6: Get Real Find Your Equilibrium Be Yourself But Keep Evolving Get Real Together CHAPTER 7: Make a Mess Produce a Prototype Co-create Build For Buy-in CHAPTER 8: Don't Play 'Nice' Strike the Right Note Make It Worth It Anticipate Differences CHAPTER 9: Dial Up the Drama Set the Stage Immerse Yourself Make Em Laugh CHAPTER 10: Make Change Change Iterate and Adapt Make a Dent Contents Putting the Principles into Practice: Breakthrough Methods Silence Your Cynic Methods 1. Interrogate Yourself 2. Ask What If...? 3. Change Your Mind(set) 4. Get Physical 5. Buddy Up Strip Away Everything Methods 1. Flip Orthodoxies 2. Defy Constraints 3. Sleuth for Truth 4. Search for UFOs (Unidentified Fact Options) 5. Reuse and Repurpose Live with the Problem Methods 1. Act like a Toddler 2. Change the Lens 3. Try Question-storming 4. Stretch Out Your Brainstorming 5. Sleep On It Check Your Edge Methods 1. Plot Your Portfolio 2. Think Three Bears 3. Play Mad Libs 4. Mix It Up 4. Push Yourself Enlist a Motley Crew Methods 1. Reveal Your Superpower 2. Assess Your Team's Diversity 3. Mind the Gap 4. Interrupt Cascades 5. Celebrate Slogans Get Real Methods 1. Start a Vulnerability Loop 2. Flag Highs and Lows 3. Explore Trust 4. Ask Deeper Questions 5. Listen Make a Mess Methods 1. Go Marshmallow! 2. Make a Metaphor 3. Immerse Yourself 4. Stream Your Consciousness 5. Doodle Do Don't Play 'Nice' Methods 1. Save a Seat for the Elephant 2. Go To

KIM CHRISTFORT is the Chief Innovation Leader and founder of the Deloitte Greenhouse(R) Experience group, focused on pushing the frontiers of experiential engagement to help clients reveal opportunity and create meaningful impact.

SUZANNE VICKBERG is a social-personality psychologist and Chief Researcher for the Deloitte Greenhouse(R) Experience, focused on exploring the behavioral dynamics underpinning individual and team engagement and creative problem-solving.