Quotes About Innovation

limit the downside cultural and business risks.

personal digital assistants (PDAs)

stretch, instability, and multidimensionality are crucial to keep a company from getting stuck.

What happened? A long track record of relatively stable success caused the ambition to hungrily search for new opportunities to atrophy.

Stretch and contradictory goals are important

I do think that creating the right foundation for your culture allows you to make changes as you need to make changes.

In a transient-advantage context, unlike a conventional one, disengaging is not confused with business failure.

innovators and experimenters who are comfortable with ambiguity and prepared to learn.

maintaining an organizational system that can maintain the complementarity between the forces for innovation and those for stability.

To be proficient, an organization needs a governance mechanism suitable for innovation (and usually separate from the planning and budgeting processes of the core business)

benefited from the declining category by developing an innovative business model—insurance, rather than simply relying on manufacturing.

Moving from advantage to advantage is seen as quite normal, not exceptional. Clinging to older advantages is seen as potentially dangerous.

High heels were invented by a woman who had once been kissed on the forehead.

There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.

I've always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn't I?

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Sawdust in the gear-boxes, the electric-drill on the speedometer cables.

Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that - Willy Wonka

Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn't everything? Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed about coming here, but then I did it.

That's why they always put two blank pages at the back of the atlas. They're for new countries. You're meant to fill them in yourself.

My Great Glass Elevator is ready for anything! In we go! Into the breach, dear friends, into the breach!

no one had really believed such an enormous thing would ever get off the ground without blowing up.

Mr. Wonka knows exactly what he's doing.