Quotes About Innovation

Leadership produces change. That is its primary function

The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.

Leadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen.

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.

Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

The job of the leader is to speak to the possibility.

Leadership is the ability to step outside the culture to start evolutionary change processes that are more adaptive.

A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress.

Creativity is the depth of the honesty you express towards your possibility.

Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

But to practice leadership, you need to accept that you are in the business of generating chaos, confusion, and conflict

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

It is time for a new generation of leadership.

Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.

Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.

We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership.

Innovation needs to be nurtured throughout an organization. Management is doing things right, whereas leadership is doing the right things.

I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.

The opportunities that everyone cannot see are the real opportunities.

In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough.