“Corporate globalists and the corporate empires they serve may be at the cutting edge of technological innovation, but socially and environmentally they are relics of a bygone era of imperial colonial rule, elite privilege, and state-sanctioned plunder.” MayStatesCuttingInnovationEnvironmentalPrivilegeEdgesErasCorporateEmpiresElitesSustainabilityTechnologicalPlunderRelicsCutting Edge Author:David Korten
“Economy is so riddled with corporate welfare and anti-competitive regulations, anti-innovation regulations. Regulations that are destroying opportunities for the disadvantaged, which is creating this two-tiered system we're headed for which has which is destroying opportunities for the disadvantaged and creating welfare for the wealthy.” TwoOpportunityEconomyCreatingInnovationCorporateWelfareWealthyDestroyingRegulationDisadvantaged Author:Charles Koch
“What really makes the difference in innovation is whether the corporate culture is paying attention to innovation.” CultureDifferencesAttentionInnovationPay AttentionCorporateCorporate Culture Author:David Livermore
“Believe in better, which is a corporate phrase rather than a political phrase. We don't want more. We're not looking for quantity. We're looking for quality. Believe in better suggests intergenerational change. It suggests product innovation. It suggests something better for the future.” WantBelievePoliticalQualityProductsInnovationCorporatePhrasesQuantitySomething Better Author:Frank Luntz
“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
“Companies have to nurture [creativity and motivation]-and have to do it by building a compassionate yet performance-driven corporate culture. In the knowledge economy the traditional soft people side of our business has become the new hard side.” PeopleHardMotivationCultureSidesCompanyCreativityEconomyBuildingPerformancesInnovationDrivenTraditionalCorporateCompassionateNurtureCorporate Culture Author:Gay Mitchell
“The locus of corporate innovations has been product development. But in times of rapid and unpredictable change, the creation of individual products becomes less important than the creation of a general organizational aptitude for innovation.” Has BeensImportantCultureIndividualCreationProductsDevelopmentInnovationCorporateUnpredictableRapidsAptitudeOrganizationalProduct Development Author:John Seely Brown
“If you want the best things to happen in corporate life you have to find ways to be hospitable to the unusual person. You don't get innovation as a democratic process. You almost get it as an anti-democratic process. Certainly you get it as an antithetical process, so you have to have an environment where the body of people are really amenable to change and can deal with the conflicts that arise out of change an innovation.” PeopleIfsWayWantPersonsBodyHappensProcessDealsEnvironmentConflictInnovationDemocraticClimateAriseCorporateBest ThingsUnusualDemocratic ProcessAmenable Author:Max De Pree