Innovation Quotes - Page 7

High Performance Teams create cultures of caring, connection, commitment, collaboration and clear consistent communication

Innovation is deviance which means that the rebellious personality is a natural resource for practical creativity. As an innovator, you need to reject the old to establish a new, better, status quo. And one of the most powerful sources of newness is the rebel or maverick, mind.

Innovation is a man made change that we see with a sense of wonder.

Life is full of different opportunities and decisions to make, and these decisions are what mold our future and “destiny”, and the results of these decisions are a product of hard work and determination and just maybe a little bit of luck.

In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the ninety-nine were played down to the level of the weakest man on parade…. The deeper the discipline, the lower was the individual excellence; also the more sure the performance. – T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom

I suppose every innovation started out as a fantasy.

What Emily Dickinson does not rename or redefine, she revises beyond easy recognition.

MOM = Maker of Miracles

You can't expect the level of excitement of your audience to be greater than your own.

All the tools, techniques and technology in the world are nothing without the head, heart and hands to use them wisely, kindly and mindfully

Innovation is the change, Change Management needs to be an integral part of innovation management.

If you want control, loosen your grip. You're strangling your employees. Letting go is actually holding on.

To go from Bitter to BETTER, means you need to turn your I onto an E, by embracing WE.

Like most events that change the world, it didn't seem interest to anyone except the people willing to do the work.

Living a life full of wonder provides for a wonderful life.

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

If necessity is the mother of invention, then surely greed must be the father. Children of this odd couple are named: Laziness, Envy, Greed, Jr., Gluttony, Lust, Anger and Pride.

In a society caught up in the race for the better, limits on change are experienced as a threat. The commitments to the better at any cost makes the good impossible at all costs. Failure to renew the bill of goods frustrates the expectation of what is possible, while renewal of the bill of goods intensifies the expectations of unattainable progress. What people have and what they are about to get are equally exasperating to them. Accelerating change has become both addictive and intolerable. At this point the balance among stability, change and tradition has been upset; society has lost both its roots in shared memories and its bearings for innovation. Judgement on precedents has lost its value.

How much longer will you wait until you take a chance on yourself?

​Till mirrors were Invented, Face was not You, Not Even part of Your Performance.

Innovation is a progress, and progress in simplicity.

The art of questioning is to ignite innovative thinking.

Innovation is the art of creating a better, a more convenient and more comfortable way for the world to pass. Leaders leave footprints everywhere they go. They are impact makers and innovators.

An entrepreneur is a leader of excellence, trailblazer and pioneer who constantly brings change to their generation.

Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.

The high-performing board shows the ability and openness to question itself and its decisions and discussions.

Your ultimate reason for staying in this crooked world is not to imitate its devastating physique, but trying do something about its ugly appearance.

Improvement is not enough, you also need innovation.

Innovation = Ideas + Execution + Adoption

The alluring, long-shot chance of a huge gain is the grease that lubricates the machine of innovation.

Innovation is about moving forward. If you are not moving forward, you are moving backward. There is no standing still.

I’m a firm a believer in the power of free enterprise to move the world forward. All that Soviet respect for science was no match for the American innovation machine once unleashed. The problem comes when the government is inhibiting innovation with overregulation and short-sighted policy. Trade wars and restrictive immigration regulations will limit America’s ability to attract the best and brightest minds, minds needed for this and every forthcoming Sputnik moment.

Disruptive innovation is entrepreneurs changing their industry with unique creativity.

Desperation is the best innovator

Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.

In School of One, students have daily "playlists" of their learning tasks that are attuned to each student's learning needs, based on that student's readiness and learning style. For example, Julia is way ahead of grade level in math and learns best in small groups, so her playlist might include three or four videos matched to her aptitude level, a thirty-minute one-on-one tutoring session with her teacher, and a small group activity in which she works on a math puzzle with three peers at similar aptitude levels. There are assessments built into each activity so that data can be fed back to the teacher to choose appropriate tasks for the next playlist.

Throughout history, people with new ideas—who think differently and try to change things—have always been called troublemakers.

It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.

Don’t always complain the way isn’t there. If you can’t find the way, create it.

Agile and DevOps are for harnessing integration, interaction, and innovation.

Culture is the constant constraint that controls creativity, commitment, collaboration, and cohesion.

Geniuses’ steps take you higher than talent’s leaps.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

The true conflict in innovation is self-imposed by trying to make our visions reality.

Jack of all trades or master of one? If you're a master of one, you'll soon be a master of none. Times are a changin. Be a jack of all trades. Or better, master of many!

An innovative mind allows “the creative flow” to open up for information abundance.

Great things often come from actions and decisions taken by others, that are deemed wild, stupid or unreasonable at the time, but later prove to be very useful.

Managers maintain the present while leaders create the future.

What is the “Once upon a time” of your brand story? Ask yourself this: “How does what I’m building help consumers close the gap between who they are today and who they want to be tomorrow?

Unlike other product developers, Jobs did not believe the customer was always right; if they wanted to resist using a mouse, they were wrong.

All human aspirations are opportunities for brands to build relationships.

Some fish love to swim upstream. Some people love to overcome challenges.

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

Honor the old but allow for innovation.

Living your life on your own terms is utterly glorious. It makes perfect sense to you, but you have to be willing to let go of everything else. It has to be okay if nobody else likes that, but then when other people see that you are brave, you don’t mind. They’re fascinated by that because we all love brave people. We all love it when people are heroic.

Until you fall in love with positive change, becoming passionate about improving the status quo, you won’t become a leader.

Much depends on asking the right question at the right time.

The smart strategist allows strategy to be shaped by events. Good reactions can make great strategy. Strategy involves competition of goals, and the risk is the difference between those goals and the ability of the organization to achieve them. So part of the risk is created by the strategy.

People who are driven by their values will overcome hurdles, difficulties, and obstacles in ways that people driven only by profit will never be able to

A transformation often needs to break down the outdated rules, and a transaction is following the rules.