Quotes About Innovation

Vision must be present for creativity to flourish.

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.' We've

Now, in the twenty-first century, the sector of the U.S. economy that accounts for more than 50 percent of our sustained economic expansion, science and engineering, is relying on an ever-dwindling skilled and educated workforce. Whereas at one point, "about 40% of the world's scientists and engineers resided in the U.S.," according to Rodney C. Adkins, senior vice president of IBM, "that number [had] shrunk to about 15%" by 2012.133

Virgin soap, Virgin cream ~ whatever next? Virgin trains?

a genius who constantly wants to upgrade his genius.

Many of the most accomplished people of our era were considered by experts to have no future. Jackson Pollock, Marcel Proust, Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Lucille Ball, and Charles Darwin were all thought to have little potential for their chosen fields.

the fixed-mindset premise that great geniuses do not need great teams. They just need little helpers to carry out their brilliant ideas.

Edison was not a loner. For the invention of the lightbulb, he had thirty assistants, including well-trained scientists, often working around the clock in a corporate-funded state-of-the-art laboratory!

chose executives on the basis of "runway," their capacity for growth.

When bosses become controlling and abusive, they put everyone into a fixed mindset. This means that instead of learning, growing, and moving the company forward, everyone starts worrying about being judged. It starts with the bosses' worry about being judged, but it winds up being everybody's fear about being judged. It's hard for courage and innovation to survive a company wide fixed mindset.

Quién dice que los elefantes no pueden bailar?

Hierarchy means very little to me. Let's put together in meetings the people who can help solve a problem, regardless of position.

Create ways to foster alternative view and constructive criticism. Assign people to play the devils advocate, taking opposing viewpoints so you can see the holes in your position. Get people to wage debates that argue different sides of the issue. Have an anonymous suggestion box that employees must contribute to as part of the decision-making proces. Remember, people can be independent thinkers and team players at the same time, help them fill both roles.

Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?

título, en él argumenta que la creatividad no es un acto mágico de inspiración, sino el resultado de mucho trabajo y entrega, hasta para Mozart.

Many of the most accomplished people of our era were considered by experts to have no future. Jackson Pollock, Marcel Proust, Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Lucille Ball, and Charles Darwin were all thought to have little potential for their chosen fields. And in some of these cases, it may well have been true that they did not stand out from the crowd early on.

Of course, after the creative act no one cared about follow-through. That was beneath them.

Obviously, a company that cannot self-correct cannot thrive.

Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.

Change is one of my favourite words.

Here, we turn everything into art.

Maybe in ten or twenty years we'll look back on chemotherapy and gasp. Another generation may be appalled that we ever did this, dripped poison through a needle into a person's body to make him well. ?

A story too many times told is a dish with-out salt. ---Rose Wilder Lane

She praised his 'agricultural theology', having long ago taken such advice as gospel: don't go looking for a better place "but MAKE one.