“It is embarrassing that the United States is so far behind the rest of the world when it comes to mCommerce.” WorldStatesUnitedBehindsUnited StatesInnovationEmbarrassing Author:Braden Kelley
“In business the 80/20 principle is behind any innovation, any extra value. It is an entrepreneurial principle, a formula for value creation utilized not only by entrepreneurs, but by most managers and organizations.” ValuesBehindsPrinciplesCreationOrganizationInnovationEntrepreneurManagersExtrasFormulasEntrepreneurial Book:The 80/20 Individual: How to Build on the 20% of What You do Best Source: The 80/20 Individual: How to Build on the 20% of What You do Best
“The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind.” StatesUseGovernmentLeftCommunityPowerfulNumbersBehindsSuccessfulCollegeIndustryProgramInnovationWorkersMost PowerfulLeft BehindManufacturingLarge NumbersMichiganCommunity College Author:Jennifer Granholm
“Take a company like GM. For years, people were warning its execs that the company was too dependent on big SUVs and trucks, that it was falling behind other companies in innovation. A lack of knowledge wasn't the problem. And mothers and fathers everywhere try to warn their kids that maybe a giant tattoo isn't such a good idea. Good luck in that fight, Knowledge.” PeopleTryingYearsIdeasProblemBigsKidsMotherFallFightingFatherBehindsCompanyInnovationLuckGiantsDependentWarningGood IdeasTattooTruckGood LuckMother And FatherLack Of KnowledgeSuvsFalling Behind Author:Dan Heath
“It's that government bureaucracies crush innovation. We are falling further and further behind in our government.” GovernmentFallBehindsInnovationCrushBureaucracyGovernment Bureaucracy Author:Carly Fiorina
“I think there are lots of opportunities to improve the product. When you read the press, people say, "Oh, the product needs improvement." I look at that and say, "Hey, that's an exciting thing to get behind!" Because they can improve that product. That leaves more upside from an innovation and revenue potential than you're gonna find in a lot of places. So you could say that's a downside, I see that as an opportunity.” PeopleThinkingNeedsLooksOpportunityBehindsProductsExcitingInnovationPressesImprovementHeyRevenueExciting Things Author:Steve Ballmer
“What won't work - what can't work - is to act like the last years never happened, and that the survival of the [mass media] industry will be found by hiding content behind walled gardens. Instead of sticking their finger in the dike, trying to hold back the flow of innovation, companies need to ride the rapids of progress and seize the opportunities it provides.” NeedsTryingYearsLastsFoundOpportunityBehindsCompanyProgressHappenedMediaIndustrySurvivalMassGardenFlowInnovationFingersHidingLast YearRapidsMass Media Author:Arianna Huffington
“The combination of moral intentionality and human innovation is a powerful force. And that's the force behind the humane economy. By embracing its tenets, we help animals, but we also advance commerce in a more sustainable, and profitable, way. I think we have every reason to believe it is the way of the future.” ThinkingWayBelieveHumansReasonHelpingForceAnimalPowerfulBehindsMoralEconomyInnovationCombinationCommerceHumaneProfitableE CommerceIntentionality Author:Wayne Pacelle
“Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.” EnergyBehindsPolicyProductsBenefitsModelsConceptsInnovationEnvironmentalRegulationTransportationLegislatorsBusiness ModelsGroundingBroadband Author:John Sununu
“The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites with little or no money behind them - blogs, say, or Wikipedia - can become influential.” LittlesSocialLevelsBehindsEconomicFieldsInternetInnovationRemarkableSiteBlogsInfluentialNo MoneyPlaying FieldsWikipediaLevel Playing FieldSocial Innovation Author:James Surowiecki
“Innovation is everything. When you're on the forefront, you can see what the next innovation needs to be. When you're behind, you have to spend your energy catching up.” NeedsNextEnergyBusinessBehindsInnovationCatchingBehind YouCatching Up Author:Robert Noyce
“Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.” Has BeensIdeasForceBehindsTechnologyProgressTeamProductsCapitalismInnovationMethodNew IdeasNew TechnologyNew Products Author:Manmohan Singh
“Seeing what is wrong and how it could be made right propels us into action, but in that action we often leave other people behind and don't give ourselves enough time to be present, or to stop and reflect. Leaders have to get comfortable with pausing in that uncomfortable gap.” PeopleGivingMadeEnoughActionWomenLeadershipInspiringBehindsLeaderCreativityTechnologySeeingComfortableInnovationEntrepreneurshipUncomfortableGapsEnough TimePausing Author:Jennifer Lawrence