Everything seemingly comes in seven or does it?
Recently I was going through my files and was amazed how the use of seven came up to form some sort of magic seven frameworks. I’m not sure if we can blame this all on the “seven wonders of the world” but ‘seven’ has some magic perhaps when it also comes to listing. Is it because our attention span can’t absorb more than seven things at a time?
Ok, I can hear my wife say “Seven, you, huh!”
Let me give you a flavour of this use of ‘seven’
- Seven keys to designing your innovation
- Seven success factors
- Seven habits of effective people
- Seven innovation myths
- Seven kinds of consequences
- Seven deadly sins of Road-mapping
- Seven levels of sustainability
- 3M’s seven pillars for innovation
The list could go on….and on. So why does seven seemingly loom so large for us?