“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
“I left college two months ago because it rewards conformity rather than independence, competition rather than collaboration, regurgitation rather than learning and theory rather than application. Our creativity, innovation and curiosity are schooled out of us.” TwoLeftCreativityCollegeTheoryMonthsInnovationIndependenceCompetitionRewardsCuriosityConformityCollaborationApplicationSchooledTwo Months Author:Dale J. Stephens
“In a world in which stylistic innovation is no longer possible, all that is left is to imitate dead styles... Contemporary or postmodernist art... will involve the necessary failure of art and the aesthetic, the failure of the new, the imprisonment in the past.” WorldArtPastLeftStyleInnovationContemporaryAestheticImprisonment Book:The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998 Source: The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998
“Too much of our work amounts to the drudgery of arranging means toward ends, mechanically placing the right foot in front of the left and the left in front of the right, moving down narrow corridors toward narrow goals. Play widens the halls. Work will always be with us, and many works are worthy. But the worthiest works of all often reflect an artful creativity that looks more like play than work.” InspirationalLooksMeanEndsPlayMovingLeftGoalCreativityToo MuchFeetFrontsAmountInnovationWorthyAssHallsBad AssCorridorsCreativity And InnovationDrudgeryArranging Author:James Ogilvy
“When the 'weaker' of the two brains (right and left) is stimulated and encouraged to work in cooperation with the stronger side, the end result is a great increase in overall ability and ... often five to ten times more effectiveness.” TwoEndsLeftSidesAbilityResultsBrainCreativityFiveTenIncreaseStrongerInnovationCooperationEffectivenessEnd Results Author:Robert E. Ornstein
“Young people should be at the forefront of global change and innovation. Empowered, they can be key agents for development and peace. If, however, they are left on society's margins, all of us will be impoverished. Let us ensure that all young people have every opportunity to participate fully in the lives of their societies.” PeopleIfsShouldYoungOpportunityLeftYouthKeysDevelopmentInnovationAgentsEmpoweringEmpoweredMargins Author:Kofi Annan
“I start where the last man left off.” MenInspirationalLastsLeftPositiveAchievementApproachInnovationExcellenceBusiness InnovationInnovation And BusinessIdeas And InnovationDiscovery And Invention Author:Thomas A. Edison