i2 Insights: Skills & Frameworks

Deep dives into the i2 skills framework and the behaviours behind creative, adaptive work.

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Skills & Frameworks

Scientific Reasoning: The Skill That Stops You Defending Your First Good Idea

Scientific reasoning is the ability to hold your own conclusions as hypotheses rather than positions. It is one of the five i2 skill clusters and the one people most often assume they already have. The point is not being right more often. It is being wrong more cheaply, while the cost of the correction is still small.

4 Aug 2026 6 min read

Skills & Frameworks

Reflection Skills: The Quiet Capability That Makes Everything Else Work Better

Reflection is the skill most people overlook and the one that makes every other capability work better. It is the ability to step back, notice your own patterns, and learn from experience in a way that actually changes what you do next. Research shows it is the strongest predictor of growth across all innovation skills.

9 Apr 2026 7 min read