This document outlines 10 lessons of innovation based on experience in the field. The lessons are: 1) Innovation involves selling ideas as well as inventing them. 2) Brainstorming needs structure and rules. 3) Creativity is not the same as innovation, which builds on creative ideas. 4) There is no single clear or simple path to innovation. 5) Innovation occurs at the intersection of unrelated ideas. 6) Innovation requires respectful but intense debate of ideas. 7) Innovation benefits from critical evaluation of flaws and failures. 8) Innovation has its own visual and verbal methods of communicating ideas. 9) Prototyping and failing early are important to innovation. 10) Intrinsic motivation, not money, drives radical