Quotes About Innovation

In this same vein, tomorrow's unusual, unconventional, and unthinkable companies will be created from sensor technology, big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, 5G networks, synthetic biology, genomics, 3D printing, and robotics.

Pick just one trend that you consider unstoppable—5G, sensor technology, big data, AI, blockchain, quantum computing, nanotechnology, robotics, 3D printing, biotechnology, synthetic biology, renewable energy, augmented reality, virtual reality, satellite technology, genomics, gene editing, online education, etc.—and research how it is already impacting your industry.

Emerging technologies may not revolutionize the business world tomorrow, but they will transform it sooner than many people expect. Therefore, anticipate cheapness.

If you don't want to be caught unaware by the future, lose your perspective because everyone from existing and future customers to your current and would-be competitors is likely viewing things from a perspective different than your own.

The questions Wile E. Coyote—and all business leaders—must ask themselves are these: How has my environment changed? How soon must I stop doing what I have been doing? And how do I change course?

Others include "The Vowel" rule: How do we need to Adapt? How is our world Evolving? How can we Innovate? Can we Organize differently? What do we need to Unlearn? WhY do we do things the way we do them?

Once a year, lock your office door and leave for a "think week"—ideally to a remote location with ample exposure to Mother Nature—and ruminate about the "day after tomorrow.

But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

A strategy is something like, an innovative new product globalization, taking your products around the world be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch you can motivate people with be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.

The Internet is the Viagra of big business.

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros.

If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

When launching something new, you have to go for it—"playing not to lose" can never be an option.

When you are a leader, your job is to have all the questions. You have to be incredibly comfortable looking like the dumbest person in the room. Every conversation you have about a decision, a proposal, or a piece of market information has to be filled with you saying, "What if?" and "Why not?" and "How come?

When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.

That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, 'Oh, somebody coughed in the background we need to take that out' - or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.

Square wheels are hard to sell

In the space of a few, bright years, something new stirred in this land; something unprecedented; something wonderful; and men, being men, perceived it with stunned awe and then, being men, destroyed it without thought, for being new and strange.

Si descubría nuevos mundos, poco importaba que fuese por error.