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Andrew Dunn from Insight Labs recently posted a call for metaphors about Iterating imagination:

Creativity. Structure. The two are normally thought to be at odds. But for a large organization to produce imaginative results again and again, it must have a structure that anticipates reinvention.

He listed four models they came up with:

• Church and State: these two ways of thinking access different parts of the brain and people with radically different skill sets
• Turn! Turn! Turn!: The relationship between reinvention and maximization is a natural cycle
• Planned Obsolescence: after a set period,  switch to reinvention mode and rebuild the strategy
• The Star Within a Star: the overall system is built in a way to blow things up again and again