CHAPTER 9
THE UNICORN’S ENABLING GIFTS
The unicorn’s enabling gifts are the set of characteristics that give an individual, on the one hand, the necessary structure to work effectively and successfully—know-how, culture, mindset—and, on the other, the drive and energy required to move forward in the prickly and unexplored territory typical of innovation, both in business and in life.
Unicorns Are Curious
When someone asks me where I find inspiration, my reply is always the same: I begin from inside myself. I have a natural motor of innate, insatiable, unstoppable curiosity for everything around me. Curiosity is a portal to access knowledge and an instigator for inspiration. Unicorns are curious—it’s a minimum common denominator for the tribe. ...
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