“Innovative organizations provide the freedom to act which arouses the desire to act.” DesireOrganizationInnovative Book:Change Masters Source: Change Masters
“A great thinker once described innovative thinkers this way: "Some men see things as they are and say, 'Why?' I dream of things that never were and say, 'Why not?'" Innovative thinkers are constantly asking questions such as these. How can we improve recruiting, hiring and training. How can be add greater value to our products and services by making them even better? How can we do more to nourish the personal as well as professional development of our people? What more can we do as a good citizen where we do business?” PeopleMenDreamValuesTrainingThinkerInnovativeHiringGood CitizenGreat Thinkers Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter
“Competition has never been more threatening than it is now. Innovative thinkers challenge the status quo in their organizations. They are often viewed as "troublemakers." They threaten the defenders of the status quo. So competition within an organization can also be brutal. The most effective leaders overcome "the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom" by being change agents themselves. They encourage and reward innovative thinking. I have observed that people only resist changes imposed on them by other people.” PeopleThinkingChallengesLeaderComfortOvercomingCompetitionTyrannyIdeologyThinkerBrutalThreateningStatus QuoInnovativeTroublemaker Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter
“The way innovating companies are designed leaves ambiguities, overlaps, decision conflicts or decision vacuums in some parts of the organisation. People rail at this, curse it-and invent innovative ways to overcome it.” PeopleWayDecisionBusinessCompanyConflictOvercomingCurseInnovativeAmbiguityVacuumsOrganisationRail Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter
“After years of telling corporate citizens to 'trust the system,' many companies must relearn instead to trust their people - and encourage their people to use neglected creative capacities in order to tap the most potent economic stimulus of all: idea power.” PeopleYearsIdeasUseOrderCompanyCreativeEconomicCitizensCapacityInnovationCorporateInnovativeNeglectedStimulusCreative IdeasIdeas And InnovationPower Of IdeasInnovative Ideas Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter
“Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.” EnemyBehaviorInnovationLimitationExecutionInquiryInnovativeConstraintsHabitualMindlessBusiness InnovationInnovation And Business Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter
“In the most innovative companies there is a significantly higher volume of thank yous than in companies of low innovation.” CompanyHigherLowsInnovationVolumeInnovative Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter
