Quotes About Innovation

Perspective separates leaders and followers more than any other characteristic. Leaders see before followers do; they see beyond what followers do; and they see bigger than followers do.

Management expert Tom Peters gives a perspective on this. He suggests, "Don't rock the boat. Sink it and start over." If you desire to be creative and do something really innovative, that's sometimes what it takes. You must destroy the old to create something new. You cannot allow yourself to be paralyzed by the idea of change.

Leaders are change agents, not change resisters.

If we're not failing or making mistakes, it means we're playing it too safe.

A leader who loves the status quo soon becomes a follower.

Raymond Smith, former CEO and Chairman of the Bell Atlantic Corporation, once remarked, "Taking the safe road, doing your job, and not making any waves may not get you fired (right away, at least), but it sure won't do much for your career or your company over the long haul. We're not dumb. We know that administrators are easy to find and cheap to keep. Leaders—risk takers—are in very short supply. And ones with vision are pure gold.

The future belongs to the curious. The ones who are not afraid to try it, explore it, poke at it, question it, and turn it inside out.

There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who left well enough alone.

Leadership expert Peter Drucker says, "The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes . . . otherwise he is sure to be mediocre." Mistakes really do pave the road to achievement.

No matter where you are in your leadership journey, never forget that what got you to where you are won't get you to the next level.

Any time there is change, there is opportunity. So it is paramount that an organization get energized rather than paralyzed.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date

Horace Walpole dijo que «las equivocaciones en la ciencia siempre anteceden a la verdad».

Contrary to popular belief, I consider failure a necessity in business. If you're not failing at least five times a day, you're probably not doing enough. The more you do, the more you fail. The more you fail, the more you learn. The more you learn, the better you get. The operative word here is learn. If you repeat the same mistake two or three times, you are not learning from it. You must learn from your own mistakes and from the mistakes of others before you.4

The desires to innovate, to improve, to create, and to find a better way are all leadership characteristics.

Mientras más ágiles, adaptables y flexibles seamos, más rápidamente podremos movernos y cambiar.

Good ideas must be shared, improved upon with the help of other good thinkers, and then they must be implemented and acted upon.

Creativity is being able to see what everybody else has seen and think what nobody else has thought so you can do what nobody else has done.

PEOPLE DO NOT NATURALLY RESIST CHANGE; THEY RESIST BEING CHANGED.

El deseo de innovar, mejorar, crear, y buscar la mejor manera es una característica de liderazgo.

The only thing worse than not having a way to capture great ideas, and thus missing them, is capturing a bad idea and trying to make it work.

many people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. They

Good Thinking Produces More Good Thinking

Los buenos líderes pocas veces piensan en términos de límites, más bien, piensan en términos de oportunidades