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“Nearly every major breakthrough innovation has been preceded by a string of failed or misguided executions.”

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Author:Frans Johansson

“Begin and you're halfway there.”

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Author:Alfred Armand Montapert

“Alan Kay's famous aphorism is that perspective is worth 80 IQ points. An innovative insight is not the product of an individual's brilliance. It's not as if innovators' heads are wired in different ways. Innovation typically comes from looking at the world through a slightly different lens.”

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Author:Gary Hamel

“Innovation is rewarded. Execution is worshipped.”

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Author:Eric Thomas

“Success doesn’t necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won’t win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.”

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Author:Naveen Jain

“Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.”

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Author:Virginia Woolf

“Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.”

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Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“Innovation is fostered by information gathered from new connections; from insights gained by journeys into other disciplines or places; from active, collegial networks and fluid, open boundaries. Innovation arises from ongoing circles of exchange, where information is not just accumulated or stored, but created. Knowledge is generated anew from connections that weren't there before.”

Source: Leadership and the new science: learning about organization from an orderly universe

“Inspiration is a guest who does not like to visit lazy people.”

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Author:Andre Tchaikowsky

“The time to go into a new business is when it’s badly run by others.”

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Author:Richard Branson

“Companies over-emphasize idea generation and under-emphasize idea execution when it comes to innovation.”

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Author:Vijay Govindarajan

“When trust is high, the dividend you receive is like a performance multiplier, elevating and improving every dimension of your organization and your life.... In a company, high trust materially improves communication, collaboration, execution, innovation, strategy, engagement, partnering, and relationships with all stakeholders.”

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Book:The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

Source: The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

“Advocates of knowledge management as the next big thing have advanced the proposition that what companies need is more intellectual capital. While that is undeniably true, its only partly true. What those advocates are forgetting is that knowledge is only useful if you do something with it.”

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Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer

“To understand a new idea, break an old habit.”

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Book:The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967

Source: The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967

“Innovation comes from long-term thinking and iterative execution.”

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Author:Reid Hoffman