Can people learn to be more innovative? According to an article from Harvard Business School, about 40% of people are simply incapable of innovation, says Harvard professor Clayton Christensen, and only about 5% are natural-born innovators. The article states: I don't want to overstate the case. I think about 40 percent of people just are not going to be good at innovating regardless of what they do. And 5 percent are born with the instinct. There are things that they do and ways that they think that are intuitive. The rest of us could learn what these innovators do if somebody would just crawl inside their brains and codify what to them is intuitive. The article continues that based upon interviews of hundreds of innovators and 5,000 executives, innovation requires five discovery skills: Associating Observing Questioning Networking Experimenting To learn more about these skills and five other ways to make your company more innovative, read the article here. Why is it that 40% of people are incapable of innovation? This is something we have been arguing all along -- that certain individuals are just not hardwired to innovate in a manner that would be applicable to business. There is no core motivation to innovate. It isn't within their DNA. Before we continue however, it is very important to establish that for the sake of this discussion, we are isolating the notion of innovation within the context of business here. According to the MDNA Strategy, there are specific personality profiles that