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Bob Sutton, one of the leaders at the D-School in Stanford and has spent many years teaching people to be innovative.

He recently posted 5 ways to teach people to be more innovative.

1. Producing smart individuals is the first step; teaching them to collaborate is the second step

2. Teach people how to fight as if they are right and listen as if they are wrong

3. Teach experts to seek out novices, and novices to seek out experts

4. Teach people to treat innovation as an import-export business

5. Teaching people how to succeed isn’t enough; teach them how to fail too

These lessons seem robust enough to be applied to any creative discipline.