Innovation Quotes of the Week – May 12, 2013
This week we continue a featured series of some of our favorite innovation-related quotes. Click on author name to link to their article. And, please contribute your favorite innovation quotes in the comments and we’ll feature the best submissions in next week’s Innovation Quotes of the Week.
” Our goal is to provide Innovation Executives, Innovation Practitioners, and Innovation Vendors with the data, insights, and analysis needed to succeed in this new world order of innovation.”
” The American healthcare system is not so much broken as made up of working parts not working together.”
“A growing body of research shows that all the assumptions behind brainstorming are flawed.“
“If you can innovate lunch, you can innovate anything.“
“Have you ever woken up in the morning and said to yourself, ‘I’m tired of being a good leader. Today, I want to suck at it.’?”
” Learning behaviors are the true drivers of a culture of innovation.“
“When landscapers see these paths through their previously immaculate turf, they groan. When I see these paths, I think of Immanuel Kant and innovation.“
” As a crusader for nonviolence, Teny and his streetworkers are igniting peace in urban Providence.”
” This month sees the release of a book that I am sure will be viewed in the future as a seminal publication in the development of Responsible Innovation.”
“The problem is that radical innovation is rarely a prudent course. It not only disrupts competitors, but also your value network.”
“If things are predictable, knowable, understandable, there is no fear. And if things are predictable, knowable, understandable there is no innovation.”
“Nothing is quite so frustrating as working with a client who claims to want and need innovation, but is paralyzed by indecision or doubt.”
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To be an innovator is a passion, not a job. The job of an innovator is to convince others to trust your passion, dive in & pay for it. 😉
To think outside of the box often actually means to stay inside the box – you just have to notice everything what is already there and innovation will follow.