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Innovation

Background: From “Good Ideas” to Real Change

A good design is not a compromise.

—Amory Lovins, inventor

If the tool of bridging builds relationships that can catalyze “good ideas,” then innovation is about taking those good ideas and turning them into action. When applied to conflict, innovation is more than a tool. It is the potential breakthrough that emerges from carefully and creative applying all of the seven preceding tools. Innovation, in other words, is the fruit of the harvest—and it comes in many forms.

Both for-profit businesses and “social profit” civic organizations are discovering ...

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