Quotes About Innovation

2. Write a launch announcement and a support page.

All projects are a dance between two forces, expanding to consider more ideas and shrinking to narrow things down enough to finish.

Product creators are the true talent of any corporation, especially one claiming to bet on innovation. The other roles don't create products and should be there to serve those who do. A classic betrayal of this idea is when the IT department dictates to creatives what equipment they can use. If one group has to be inefficient, it should be the support group, not the creatives. If the supporting roles, including management, dominate, the quality of products can only suffer.

The fact that we are still sitting on and depending on technical protocols nearly a half century old is a testament to the genius of those who invented everything from such inventions, protocols and standards like Ethernet to personal computers that were more than just circuit boards for geeks, but actually had small GUI interfaces, as well as connected devices such as a mouse and keyboard.

We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.

Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present.

Too many would-be beautiful businesses that could reinvent markets and create substantial value live only in PowerPoint documents, never to be launched.

We don't have to destroy the library of the past. We just need to give it a face-lift.

To be great at something, you must look to the great ones of the past and improve on the ideas and techniques that they started. I was motivated to do better—to improve on the ideas of others.

UNLOCKING YOUR IDEA

so what's your big idea?

Launch!: The Critical 90 Days From Idea to Market (2014).

As a result, I was able to identify a path for not only taking your idea to market but also growing that idea exponentially. The result of that two years' worth of work is the book you hold in your hands.

The key to success as an entrepreneur is finding an opportunity, and when you find it, executing like crazy.

What I learned from Jeff (and his daughter) that day is the importance of constantly, maybe even obsessively, asking "why" in your business. I learned that when you start to question things, you wind up creating these "aha" moments, which combine a sense of wonder with the knowledge of how to get something done.

was all about adapting to the new technology on the market.

diverse teams make better mousetraps.

Progress depends as much on our collective differences as it does on our individual IQ scores.

importance, essence, and averaging. The importance of diversity in complex systems is the central theme of this book. Why does diversity matter? What roles does it play? I show that diversity has many roles and effects. Diversity can provide insurance, improve productivity, spur innovation, enhance robustness, produce collective knowledge,

Rape, pillage, plunder, gouge, extort, and beat... your imagination.

If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they simply would have said a faster horse. —attributed to Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company Your

Man's noblest endowment is his capacity to change.

Adopting tricks of the trade from colleagues is done everywhere else in research-why not in writing?

Studies have been shown that people with creative minds find it harder to fall asleep at night and prefer to stay up later.