INNOVATION QUOTES II
quotations about innovation
Reactive innovation does little to differentiate a company from the competition, and just delays the sinking of the ship. Innovation must be pervasive and perpetual; everyone, everywhere, all of the time. Innovation must be seen as the key currency within the company.
STEPHEN SHAPIRO
24/7 Innovation
All great ideas are dangerous.
OSCAR WILDE
De Profundis
Innovators are extremely passionate people and will constantly be in search of new ideas, whilst their peers will still be reeling from the last change.
MARGARET THORSBORNE & PETA BLOOD
Implementing Restorative Practice in Schools
Pure innovation is more gross than error.
GEORGE CHAPMAN
Bussy D'Ambois
Being innovative is another huge plus for successful project managers. When you're thinking creatively and putting your heads together, or brainstorming, for example, you're opening the channel to that burst of creative energy that leads to new and innovative ways of resolving conflict.
PHILL C. AKINWALE
Conflict Resolution Reflections
Innovators are the source--where everything begins.
RAJIV RAJENDRA
Lead 3D
It's great to think everyone has an interesting idea inside looking for a chance to be realized but the brutal reality is resources are scarce. The bulk of any organization's resources will naturally flow to ongoing operations. If you let everyone try and innovate, all you end up with is a bag-ful of ideas which nobody has a chance to do anything with. So yes, while anyone can think up an interesting idea, the reality is only a chosen few will ever be allocated enough resources to try and turn that creative idea into something worthwhile.
BUSINESS NEWS PUBLISHING
The Other Side of Innovation
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
FRANCIS BACON
"Of Innovations", Essays
Creativity is a choice. So what makes people make that choice? On the one hand, being sensible people, they want a reasonable assurance that they will not get lost in the woods. If they, standing at the crossroads, can see that the creative path is littered with corpses of innovators past, they are going to drop their ideas and go straight back to business as usual. If, on the other hand, there are clear signs that successful innovators are rewarded, that failed innovators aren't treated too badly, and that current, ongoing innovators are not made to go through hell, then they just might take the creative path more often, embracing innovation as usual.
PADDY MILLER & THOMAS WEDELL-WEDELLSBORG
Innovation as Usual: How to Help Your People Bring Great Ideas to Life
If it ain't broke, break it.
RICHARD PASCALE
Managing on the Edge
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
Reflections on Success
Being innovative is to view life from the eyes of a child, to imagine without the thought constraints adults are more prone to.
MARY LOU DECOSTERD
Right Brain/Left Brain Leadership: Shifting Style for Maximum Impact
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
Building a Better Business
Progress doesn't come from early risers--progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Time Enough for Love
The dark side of being innovative is the sword of Damocles of defeat and failure, which always hangs over innovative companies.
BERND X. WEIS
From Idea to Innovation: A Handbook for Inventors, Decision Makers and Organizations
Large corporations welcome innovation and individualism in the same way the dinosaurs welcomed large meteors.
SCOTT ADAMS
Dilbert
Innovation is never a one-time phenomenon, but a long and cumulative process of a great number of organizational decision-making processes, ranging from the phase of generation of a new idea to its implementation phase.
KUNIYOSHI URABE
Innovation and Management
Innovation is the unanswerable objection urged against all improvement.
H. SMITH
attributed, Day's Collacon
Making innovation is never free of its social context, its resistors, enablers, recalcitrants, champions and the like.
TYRONE PITSIS
Handbook of Organizational and Managerial Innovation
Innovators are often "marginal men," who are, for a variety of reasons, somewhat divorced from the core of their culture and thus more free to create.
LOUISE SPINDLER
Culture Change and Modernization: Mini-Models and Case Studies