When is the last time you made a bad decision? Was it because you didn’t trust your gut or was it because you didn’t gather enough evidence before making the decision?

Often the best decisions are a combination of both. Harrison Assessment calls this Instinctive Logic. It is one of twelve paradoxical skills and important not only for decision making but also for innovation.

A recent study from Frontiers (Lee et. al., 2023) concluded that paradoxical leaders had significant advantage over other leadership styles when it came to predicting innovation.

In this article we will unpack Insightful Curiosity, one of several important paradoxes related to innovation, because it enables a wider range of ideas to be collected in the brainstorming or discovery stage. Insightful Curiosity impacts the quality of the top of the innovation funnel.

How can we develop innovation skills? Innovative Thinking was #5 on the list of LinkedIn’s Top Skills on the rise for 2025. Innovation is the growth engine of a company. Without innovation, many companies will eventually fail.

In this article, we will unpack the paradox of focused innovation which is directly related to innovative thinking.