Personality Poker is a different kind of assessment tool for capturing one's personality quickly.  It's also a great example of the collision of multiple worlds: personality assessments, Formula One racing, and Las Vegas poker. Think I'm a bit crazy?  See for yourself.  Read the story of how it was developed.

Key take-aways from this wonderful example of boundary crossing:

•  Boundary crossing doesn't happen without a fair amount of curiosity and imagination.   The developer of Personality Poker, Stephen Shapiro had to be curious enough to wonder what would happen if innovation teams worked as efficiently and predictably as the pit crews who service race cars.  That is, he had to imagine the collision of two worlds. This gave him the characteristics of optimal teams that he could then develop an assessment for.  Photo by Juliana Coutinho.

• Applying one concept in one world to another requires field tested to really make it useful.  This is where boundary crossing and entrepreneurship are synergistic.  With both, you have to be willing to try stuff out, learn from the failures, and apply new knowledge to the next iteration.  Shapiro noticed that filling out an assessment was boring for people, no matter how accurate or useful the results of the assessment.  This drove him to create the next iteration of the assessment using the playing card metaphor. 

• The trigger for boundary crossing is observation and awareness, stepping back to see a framework for doing things in one world and noticing how great, effective, remarkable, useful that way is in that world.  Without the initial observation, there is no transferring the concept to another world. How many of us go through life sleep walking and not seeing a solution right in front of us?  Shapiro took his experience with playing blackjack in Las Vegas to create a useful metaphor for his personality assessment.

Many thanks to @robinjpearson for pointing me to the story of Personality Poker.  It's a winner!