Innovation Quotes - Page 25

• Only the general manager can mold the resources, processes, and values that affect innovation , into a coherent capability to develop and launch superior new products and services repeatedly.

  Clayton Christensen

  Mold, Process, Resources

  Clayton M. Christensen (1999). “Innovation and the General Manager”, Irwin Professional Pub

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• Artists who have produced experimental innovations have been motivated by aesthetic criteria: they have aimed at presenting visual perceptions. Their goals are imprecise, so their procedure is tentative and incremental.

  David Galenson

  Artist, Goal, Perception

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• Cooperation is in fact the living and productive pulsation of the multitudo. Cooperation is the articulation in which an infinite number of the singularities are composed as productive essence of the new. Cooperation is innovation, richness, and thus the basis of the creative surplus that defines the expression of the multitudo.

  Antonio Negri

  Expression, Essence, Numbers

  Antonio Negri (1999). “Insurgencies: Constituent Power and the Modern State”, p.345, U of Minnesota Press

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• The paradox of innovation is this: CEO's often complain about lack of innovation, while workers often say leaders are hostile to new ideas.

  Patrick Dixon

  Ideas, Leader, Complaining

  "Building a Better Business". Book by Patrick Dixon, 2005.

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• Our need for innovation has shifted power closer to the source of that power-Us. We are the future.

  Max McKeown

  Needs, Source

  Max McKeown (2008). “The Truth about Innovation”, p.7, Pearson Education

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• If the positive innovations connect exponentially before the massive breakdowns reinforce one another, the system can re-pattern itself to a higher order of consciousness and freedom without the predicted economic, environmental, and social collapse...If the system could go either way, a slight intervention to assist the convergence of the positive can tip the scales of evolution in favor of the enhancement of life on Earth.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Order, Environmental, Favors

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• Innovation implies high risk, and with high risk comes failure, so you've got to be prepared for that, but if you don't risk, then your business goes stale very quickly.

  Michael Grade

  Risk, Be Prepared, Stale

  "Reflections on Success". Book by Martyn Lewis, 1997.

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• Progress comes from finding better ways to do things. Don't be afraid of innovation. Don't be afraid of ideas that are not your own.

  Douglas Crockford

  Ideas, Progress, Way

  Response Post to David Winer's "Scripting News for 12/21/2006", scripting.wordpress.com. December 21, 2006.

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• The clustering of technological innovation in time and space helps explain both the uneven growth among nations and the rise and decline of hegemonic powers.

  Robert Gilpin

  Space, Growth, Helping

  Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.109, Princeton University Press

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• When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring. In short, we find the faith of leap.

  Alan Hirsch

  Retreat, Possibility, Situation

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.101, Baker Books

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• If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion, who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.

  Alan Hirsch

  Adventure, Loss, Risk

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.151, Baker Books

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• I balance my natural drive for speed and impact with a counterbalancing drive for significance, innovation and sustained customer intimacy. This involves slowing down and moving from transactive management, which focuses on speed, content, accuracy and productivity, to transformative leadership, which focuses on significance, context, authenticity and purpose. This critical shift requires constant diligence, discipline and practice.

  Kevin Cashman

  Moving, Impact, Practice

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• The pace of digital innovation is astonishing. It's impossible to imagine life without the web, smartphones, social networks. And yet the consumer products and everyday objects all around us are still essentially dumb.

  Andy Hobsbawm

  Smartphones, Everyday Objects, Dumb

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• If we want to make the best products, we also have to invest in the best ideas... Every dollar we invested to map the human genome returned $140 to our economy... Today, our scientists are mapping the human brain to unlock the answers to Alzheimer's... Now is not the time to gut these job-creating investments in science and innovation. Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Alzheimer's, Race

  Fourth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 12 February 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• [The Internet] is by far the most important innovation in the media in my lifetime. It's like having a huge encyclopedia permanently available. There's a tremendous amount of rubbish on the world wide web, but retrieval of what you want to so rapid that it doesn't really matter

  Richard Dawkins

  Media, Important, Matter

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• Innovation is not the exclusive province of New Economy companies.

  John McKinley

  Economy, Company, Provinces

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• The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient ... But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem. It's ad hoc meetings of six people called by someone who thinks he has figured out the coolest new thing ever and who wants to know what other people think of his idea.

  Steve Jobs

  Mean, Night, Thinking

  "The Seed of Apple's Innovation". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. October 12, 2004.

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• If we don't create private sector jobs and just - just creating public sector jobs, we're going nowhere. This is a bad game. You've got to have innovation. You've got to have tax policies that support innovation.

  Jack Welch

  Jobs, Games, Creating

  "Jack Welch Gives 'Em Hell at VF/Bloomberg Panel". “No Visibility Ahead: Predicting What’s Next” panel, co-hosted by Vanity Fair and Bloomberg, www.vanityfair.com. May 29, 2009.

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• All innovation is about letting go, saying goodbye to things to create space for the new.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Letting Go, Goodbye, Space

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• You can't win on innovation unless you have a way to communicate it to customers.

  Steve Jobs

  Winning, Way, Communicate

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• From wearable sensors to video game treatments, everyone seems to be looking to technology as the next wave of innovation for mental health care.

  Thomas R. Insel

  Technology, Games, Video

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• [Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but which is hypothesised on the basis of some innovation in science or technology, or pseudo-science or pseudo-technology, whether human or extra-terrestrial in origin. It is distinguished from pure fantasy by its need to achieve verisimilitude and win the 'willing suspension of disbelief' through scientific plausibility.

  Kingsley Amis

  Technology, Winning, Class

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• Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Running, Creativity, Running A Business

  Twitter post from Aug 17, 2017

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• It's not that I don't believe in creativity and innovation and new ideas, and the creativity that comes with fashion, which I really respect. But one of my biggest concerns is just how cheap we expect everything to be.

  Lily Cole

  Fashion, Believe, Creativity

  "Lily Cole: 'We can buy less and pay more'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2011.

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• Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Exercise, Self, Innovative

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