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Author's thoughts on innovation aren't reflected in her own book.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
``The Seeds of Innovation: Cultivating the Synergy that Fosters New Ideas,'' by Elaine Dundon (Amacom, 239 pages, $24.95)
Before Dick Fosbury won the Olympic gold medal for high jumping by flipping over the high bar backward, Elaine Dundon reminds readers in ``The Seeds of Innovation,'' most high jumpers used either the scissor kick or other frontward approaches.
Now, of course, almost all jumpers use the "Fosbury Flop." But in 1968, the technique was a revolutionary innovation.
"Fosbury's idea of flipping backward in the air was not new _ it was just new to high jumping," Dundon writes. "Divers throw their bodies backward through the air, so why can't high jumpers? Connecting an idea from one sport to another sport can result in a ...
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