Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword by Dorothy A. Leonard -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Crushing Force -- The Paradox of Expertise -- An Overview of the Book Structure -- A Note on Terminology -- Part I. What's Weighing us Down -- Chapter 1. Our Own Worst Enemy: How the Burden of what we know Limits what we can Imagine -- First Things First: What Exactly Is Innovation? -- The Attack on Innovative Thinking -- Innovation Phases and Filters -- The Ah-Hah! of the Perpetual Novice -- Two Notes -- Key Points -- Chapter 2. Groupthink: The Strongest Force on Earth: Why Sustained Innovation is so Darned Hard: Part 1 -- No One Is Immune -- But We're Smarter Than That -- So What? -- Key Points -- Chapter 3. Expertthink: Groupthink on Steroids: Why Sustained Innovation is so Darned Hard: Part 2 -- Expertise: The Pros and the Cons -- ExpertThink: Expertise Gone Awry -- Follow the Leader -- Catch-22 -- The Heavy Cost -- The Anti-ExpertThinker -- Key Points -- Part II. Zero-Gravity Thinkers -- Chapter 4. Time Travel to see the Naked Emperor: The Benefit of Psychological Distance -- Psychological Distance: Groupthink's Nemesis -- The Perils of Being an Insider and an Outsider at the Same Time -- The Challenge of the Permanent Balancing Act -- Key Points -- Chapter 5. Just Curious: The Benefit of Renaissance Tendencies -- A Real-Life Study in Contrast -- Unexpected Associations -- Measuring Renaissance Tendencies -- Key Points -- Chapter 6. Smart about Something else: The Benefit of Related Expertise -- Naiveté -- Funny Math: Two + Two = Five -- A Potential Intersection Point -- Gaining Steam -- It's All Relative -- Key Points -- Part III. Defying Gravity -- Chapter 7. The Collaborator: What does a Zero-Gravity Thinker Actually do? -- Outside Roles -- Zero-Gravity Informers and Doers -- The Underutilized Role.

Being Intuitive -- Key Points -- Chapter 8. When and where … when do you need a Collaborator and where do you Find One? -- When Do You Need a Collaborator? -- Where Do You Find a Collaborator? -- A Final Word -- Key Points -- Chapter 9. How to Work with a Zero-Gravity Thinker: Eleven Questions and Answers -- Key Points -- Chapter 10. Do-It-Yourself Weightless Thinking: Losing the Weight of Expertise on Your Own -- Practice One: Look at the Challenge as if You Are Someone Else … And Then Someone Else … And Then Someone Else -- Practice Two: Train Yourself to Look for Weird Combinations -- Practice Three: Change the Way You Think About Thinking -- Practice Four: Spend Quality Time Defining the Problem Before Trying to Solve It -- Practice Five: Understand What Constrains Your Thinking -- Practice Six: Nurture the Zero-Gravity Thinker Within -- Key Points -- Chapter 11. The Courage to go Where no one has Gone Before: The Role of the Leader -- Hittin' Out of the Park -- Mixed Messages -- A Culture of Courage -- Staged Approach to Innovation-Stimulation -- Making Our Own Luck -- Key Points -- Appendix A. Related Expertise Grid -- Appendix B. A Leader's Guide -- Notes -- Index.