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Diego Rodriguez of the d.school and IDEO has started a list of 21 Principles of Innovation on his Metacool blog. He’s posting them one-by-one and is currently at 11 of 21:

1. Experience the world instead of talking about experiencing the world >
2. See and hear with the mind of a child >
3. Always ask: “How do we want people to feel after they experience this?” >
4. Prototype as if you are right. Listen as if you are wrong. >
5. Anything can be prototyped. You can prototype with anything. >
6. Live life at the intersection >
7. Develop a taste for the many flavors of innovation >
8. Most new ideas aren’t >
9. Killing good ideas is a good idea >
10. Baby steps often lead to big leaps >
11. Everyone needs time to innovate >
12. -  21. …

I have money down on “Preserving Ambiguity” for one of the remaining 10 items (and hope the list of 21 is actually 20).