Denning and dunham identify and describe eight personal practices that all successful innovators perform sensing envisioning offering adopting sustaining executing leading and embodying together these practices can boost a fledgling innovator to success weakness in any of these practices they show blocks innovation. Denning and dunham identify and describe eight personal practices that all successful innovators perform sensing envisioning offering adopting sustaining executing leading and embodying together these practices can boost a fledgling innovator to success weakness in any of these practices they show blocks innovation. Denning and dunham identify and describe eight personal practices that all successful innovators perform sensing envisioning offering adopting sustaining executing leading and embodying together these practices can boost a fledgling innovator to success weakness in any of these practices they show blocks innovation