Quotes About Innovation

The purpose of leadership is not to make the present bearable. The purpose of leadership is to make the future possible.

Crisis moments create opportunity. Problems and crises ignite our greatest creativity and thought leadership as it forces us to focus on things outside the norm.

Leadership is about creating new realities.

Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.

Leadership requires creating conditions that enable employees to do the kinds of experimentation that entrepreneurship requires.

Leadership is about change... The best way to get people to venture into unknown terrain is to make it desirable by taking them there in their imaginations.

The responsibility of leadership is not to come up with all the ideas but to create an environment in which great ideas can thrive.

Leadership is about coping with change

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Adopt and change before any major trends or changes.

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

If the experience of leadership is like being at the edge of an unfamiliar chasm, the act of leadership is building a bridge across that chasm.

Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.

Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.

A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless... someone's got to make a wake up call.

If leadership is the act of going beyond what is ... it begins by going beyond what is within ourselves.

Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.

It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things humans have done. And then try to bring those things in to what you're doing.

Progress requires change.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

Influencers refuse to leave the world they way they found it. They leave a legacy.

I would rather gamble on our vision than make a 'me, too' product.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Making an enduring company was both harder and more important than making a great product.