Quotes About Innovation

To make sure that X only works on the most promising ideas, the company has a "Rapid Evaluation" team that processes proposals, vets ideas, and promotes only those that seem achievable. This team, which consists of a combination of senior managers and inventors, first runs a pre-mortem, trying to come up with as many reasons as possible why the idea could fail.50 "Rapid Eval," as the team is known, considers the problem's scale, feasibility, and technological risks.

Jazz at Lincoln Center, says of his work with other jazz musicians: "There are always tensions that come up. Part of working is dealing with tensions. If there's no tension, then you're not serious about what you're doing.

There is no such thing as a straight line, the sun does not go down, and it is time we updated our language. A more mesmerizing discourse I have never heard.

unless a leader expressly and actively makes it psychologically safe to do so, people will automatically seek to avoid failure. So how did Teller reframe failure to make it okay? By saying, believing, and convincing others that "I'm not pro failure, I'm pro learning.

OpenTable CEO Christa Quarles tells employees, "early, often, ugly. It's O.K. It doesn't have to be perfect because then I can course-correct much, much faster.

The Braintrust's recipe is fairly simple: a group of directors and storytellers watches an early run of the movie together, eats lunch together, and then provides feedback to the director about what they think worked and what did not. But the recipe's key ingredient is candor. And candor, though simple, is never easy.

Pixar director Andrew Stanton offers advice for how to choose people for an effective feedback group. They must, he says, "make you think smarter and put lots of solutions on the table in a short amount of time."6 Stanton's point about having people around who make us "think smarter" gets to the heart of why psychological safety is essential to innovation and progress. We can only think smarter if others in the room speak their minds.

For over a century, we've focused too much on relentless execution and depended too much on fear to get things done. That era is over.

Tightwaddery without creativity is deprivation. When there is a lack of resourcefulness, inventiveness, and innovation, thrift means doing without. When creativity combines with thrift you may be doing it without money, but you are not doing without.

Frugality without creativity is deprivation.

I could see the genius in allowing future to evolve. You could create momentum. You could launch something and see where it goes. You couldn't line everything up, like so many dominoes, and make everything fall into place.

The twentieth century contributed skyscrapers and typewriters and automobiles and telephones to the world. Solid, workable objects. Every innovation of the twenty-first century could be erased by a power failure.

Vern actually installs an all-white ceiling fan in his room! He points out that it's a Trading Spaces first. (Season 3, Episode 2)

À l'instant la chose qui n'a pas le monopole au Maroc c'est la banalité.

The Friedman's ideas played an essential part in my life

My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.

Uma parte de mim também não se sente nada à vontade diante dessas escolhas tradicionais. Mas não posso mudar o que já passou. E não creio que a forma de mudar o que ainda vem por aí seja ignorando o que se construiu antes.

Les plus beaux livres sont ceux qui n'ont jamais été écrits.

La utopía es el principio de todo progreso y el diseño de un futuro mejor.

To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.

The best way to get past any barrier is to come at it from a different direction, which is one reason it is useful to work with a teacher or coach.

Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale.

The exquisite corpse will drink the young wine. (Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau.)

Chère imagination, ce que j'aime surtout en toi, c'est que tu ne pardonnes pas.