This document discusses innovations and resilience. It emphasizes showing ideas rather than just describing them to help people visualize new concepts. It also stresses identifying high-quality targets that are real, worthwhile, and allow for collaboration. The document then provides 10 techniques for adding "wow factor" to promising ideas, such as substituting, combining, adapting, modifying, putting to other uses, eliminating, reversing, or rearranging elements. References for further information are also included.