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Steve and David talk about the having these abilities embodied in a "creative" individual, "strong at both imagining concepts and following through with execution."
Another approach might be, recognizing the different needs of the innovative process, to form teams of individuals that, together, add up to the "embodiment" of these elements. What is then needed along the way is an effective approach for communication and persuasion between team members, so that the thinkers have a way to talk to the doers about objectives and desirable outcomes and the doers can talk back about prerequisites and plans, and both can freely express yes-but concerns as well as yes-and ideas. If the thinkers and the doers spend enough time working together effectively, I have little doubt that they'll rub off on each other.
Perhaps the ability of the TOC Thinking Processes to help logically "verbalize intuition" could fill that bill.
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