Unleashing innovation & 21st century scale - Palindromic Queries

Introducing:Palindromic Queries

A palindromic query is a question or statement you can apply in multiple contexts...
such as to any area of your business
(including strategy, structure, plans and process)
...that will always
result in improvement

Palindromic queries are
to innovation
what breathing is
to life

An example of a palindromic query is...
‘What can I remove
and this still make sense?’

Consider…
…and millions of other contexts

will result in improvement
Applying the question to any (business) area

Zoom right in to a product roadmap, production
workflow, departmental structure or UX design
Zoom right out until your business is a dot
Palindromic queries apply across, down and throughout business, strategy and ethos
Unveiling a design for life

Palindromic queries offer a
pathway to the optimum
Serving as a hub around which you can
connect seemingly unconnected ideas

Another example…
‘The more connections something
has the more powerful it is’
or connectedness = power

In a network the most connected
nodes are the most powerful

The Law of the Few
“The success of any kind of social epidemic
is heavily dependent on the involvement of
people with a particular and rare set of social gifts” [Malcolm Gladwell]

connectedness = power

‘If one style of thought stands out as the most potent explanation of genius
it is the ability to make juxtapositions that elude mere mortals. Call it a facility with metaphor, the ability to connect the unconnected to see relationships to which others are blind’ [Joshua Cooper Ramo & Debra Rosenberg]
Palindromic queries
are the glue of genius

The only difference found between Einstein’s brain and that
of others was the richness of connections between brain cells
Whenever we think a new thought or explore a topic in a new way (perhaps
as you’re doing right now) the more connections we make between our neurons and dendrites… the more connections, the greaterour brain
capacity and potential for intelligent thought

The more you unpick, the more obvious
and fundamental the concept seems
This is a key characteristic of a palindromic query

Palindromic queries are growth’s secret sauce

Another palindromic query example…
‘Good replicators get replicated’

Over 3 billion years ago molecules were created that could make copies of themselves
The earth’s first replicator was born

In Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene [1976], he explored how genes will get copied if they can, regardless of the consequences; and so long as you have variation, selection and heredity, you must get evolution
‘Design out of chaos
without the aid of mind’
[Dan Dennett]

Humans are replicators too...
copying information (‘memes’)
from brain to brain
We’re part of a design process…
variation, selection, evolution

Starfish have a decentralized neural structure permitting regeneration

‘If you cut off a spider's head, it dies; if you cut off a
starfish's leg it grows a new one, and that leg can
grow into an entirely new starfish’
‘Traditional top-down organizations are like spiders,
but now starfish organizations are changing the
face of business and the world’
[The Starfish & the Spider, OriBrafman & Rod A. Beckstrom]

What can you remove from your [business/product/life]
and it still make sense?

How can you put connectedness at the
heart of your organization?
How can you help your customers, colleagues, offices, partners, processes, websites, products, services, systems... connect more?

How can your [business model/organization structure/marketing] become a better replicator?
How can you operate in a more
decentralized way?

Palindromic queries unleash creativity,
innovation and clarity

Searching for palindromic queries unearths
scalable 21st century business models

Building a list of palindromic queries is
also a secret ingredient for revelatory workshops, strategies and proposals

How many statements or questions can you think of that apply in multiple contexts…
…that will always result
in improvement?

Palindromic queries offer a
pathway to the optimum

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Unleashing innovation & 21st century scale - Palindromic Queries

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