Quotes About Innovation

One opposite of imagination is "efficiency.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. So said Voltaire, the realist.

M.: Do you think Mahler thought he was doing something avant-garde? O.: I don't think so. M.: Schoenberg and Alban Berg were certainly conscious of being avant-garde, though. O.: Oh, very much so. They had their "method". Mahler had no such thing. M.: So he flirted with chaos, not as a methodology, but naturally and instinctively. Is that what you are saying? O.: Yes. Isn't that exactly where his genius lies?

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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. That's the world of hicks and slobs. Real people would be ashamed of themselves doing that. Haven't you noticed, Watanabe? You and I are the only real ones in the dorm. The other guys are crap.

A world full of geniuses would have significant problems.

Sumire frowned and sighed. "If they invent a car that runs on stupid jokes, you could go far.

The true enemy of this bunch was not State Power but Lack of Imagination.

Your readers have seen a sky with one moon in it any number of times, right? But I doubt they've seen a sky with two moons in it side by side. When yoy introduce things that most readers have never seen before into a piece of fiction, you have to describe them with as much precision and in as much detail as possible. What you can eliminate from fiction is the description of what most readers have seen.

The very technologies that make it hard for us to maintain healthy boundaries among domains also enable us to blend them in ways—unfathomable even a decade ago—that can render us more productive and more fulfilled.

But problem solving, however necessary, does not produce results. It prevents damage. Exploiting opportunities produces results.

Management must think of itself not as producing products but as providing customer-creating value satisfactions. It must push this idea (and everything it means and requires) into every nook and cranny of the organization. It has to do this continuously and with the kind of flair that excites and stimulates the people in it.

Similarly, U.S. charter schools were freed from the rules of public school systems so they could innovate and thus serve as models for improved education. They've employed many innovative practices, including longer school days and focused curricula, but there is little evidence that charter schools have influenced changes in the rest of their school districts.

Corporations that do a better-than-average job of developing leaders put an emphasis on creating challenging opportunities for relatively young employees.

One way to encourage innovation to flourish outside the normal planning cycles is to reserve pools of special funds for unexpected opportunities. That way, promising ideas do not have to wait for the next budget cycle, and innovators do not have to beg for funds from mainstream managers who are measured on current revenues and profits.

At the heart of that activity is innovation: the effort to create purposeful, focused change in an enterprise's economic or social potential.

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What the railroads lack is not opportunity but some of the managerial imaginativeness and audacity that made them great.

You get results by exploiting opportunities, not solving problems.

Transformations often begin, and begin well, when an organization has a new head who is a good leader and who sees the need for a major change.

New ventures are undertaken with a high ratio of assumption to knowledge.

The most dramatic change will be the marketing department's reinvention as a "customer department." The first order of business is to replace the traditional CMO with a new type of leader—a chief customer officer. The

In one midsize European company, the first pass at a vision contained two-thirds of the basic ideas that were in the final product.

EVERY MAJOR INDUSTRY WAS once a growth industry.