“Change masters are - literally - the right people in the right place at the right time. The right people are the ones with the ideas that move beyond the organization's established practice, ideas they can form into visions. The right places are the integrative environments that support innovation, encourage the building of coalitions and teams to support and implement visions. The right times are those moments in the flow of organizational history when it is possible to reconstruct reality on the basis on accumulated innovations to shape a more productive and successful future.” PeopleIdeasMomentsRealityMovingFormVisionPracticeSupportSuccessfulEnvironmentTeamBuildingMastersShapesFlowOrganizationBasesInnovationProductiveRight TimeRight PlaceCoalitionsOrganizational Book:Change Masters Source: Change Masters
“Lands' End has undergone three major changes over the past couple of decades. The first was the introduction of an 800 number, in 1978; the second was express delivery, in 1994; and the third was the introduction of a Web site, in 1995. The first two innovations cut the average transaction time-the time between the moment of ordering and the moment the goods are received-from three weeks to four days. The third innovation has cut the transaction time from four days to, well, four days.” FirstsWellsTwoEndsMomentsPastThreeNumbersFourCuttingWeekLandCoupleMajorsThirdsInnovationAverageDecadesGoodsSiteIntroductionDeliveryOver The PastTransactionsMajor Change Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“By being discontented, the spirit searches for ways to improve its condition and for a better channel for expressing itself. This sense of discontent is the engine that drives all creativity and innovation... Our blue moments are a necessary part of our human evolution.” WayHumansMomentsSpiritCreativityConditionsEvolutionInnovationBlueEnginesDiscontentCreativity And InnovationHuman Evolution Author:Chin-Ning Chu
“There are many things Calvin Klein would have never done - he would have never put men in leggings in a show; he would have never done a fluorescent suit - but these are things that are right for the moment. For example, a fluorescent suit is graphic, and Calvin Klein is about being graphic. And Calvin Klein is always modern at its core, so I inject my own research and my own innovation, and I make it my own. But I never deny that core, because that would be stupid.” MenDoneMomentsModernStupidInnovationGraphic Author:Italo Zucchelli
“You need to begin where people are. You can't punt ideas or innovations in from the 40 yard line. And yes, the work should feel so collaborative that it should feel like the end result belongs to everyone. Your best moment as a consultant is when your client plays your idea back to you as their idea. Your job: to nod sagely and say, "that's an excellent idea.".” PeopleMomentsInnovationExcellent Author:Grant David McCracken
“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.” MenLifeInspirationalMomentsGovernmentImaginationVisionCreativityCreativeRocksInnovationCeaseContemplatingBe CreativeMy ImaginationCarpe DiemCathedralsCreative ImaginationSingle ManImagination And CreativityInspire CreativityImagination CreativityVisions And DreamsVision Of LifeGreat ImaginationRelated To CreativityImagination And RealityImagination Reality Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“The innovation point is the pivotal moment when talented and motivated people seek the opportunity to act on their ideas and dreams.” PeopleIdeasMomentsDreamOpportunityCreativityInnovationMotivatedBusiness InnovationInnovation And BusinessPivotalIdeas And InnovationIdeas And DreamsInnovative LeadershipPivotal Moments Author:W. Arthur Porter
“One of the challenges of innovation is figuring out how to wipe your mind clean about what you should be doing at any given moment, and not having a religious attachment to what's gotten you there thus far.” ShouldMindMomentsGivenChallengesReligiousInnovationCleanLimitationAttachmentWipeConstraints Author:Andrew Mason
“In the absence of a great dream pettiness prevails. Shred visions foster risk taking, courage and innovation. Keeping the end in mind creates the confidence to make decisions even in moments of crisis.” MindEndsMomentsDreamDecisionVisionRiskInnovationCrisisAbsenceRisk-takingPettiness Author:Peter Senge
“Executive Severance, a laugh out loud comic mystery novel, epitomizes our current cultural moment in that it is born from the juxtaposition of authorial invention and technological communication innovation. Merging creative text with new electronic context, Robert K. Blechman's novel, which originally appeared as Twitter entries, can be read on a cell phone. His tweets which merge to form an entertaining novel can't be beat. Hold the phone; exalt in the mystery-engage with Blechman's story which signals the inception of a new literary art form.” ArtMomentsStoriesFormBornNovelLaughingCreativeMysteryCommunicationBeatsInnovationPhonesCurrentsInventionCellsComicLoudExecutivesEntertainingTechnologicalSignalsTweetCell PhoneEntryInceptionJuxtapositionMergingMystery NovelsLaugh Out LoudLiterary Art Author:Marleen S. Barr
“What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don't just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else.” PeopleLooksHas BeensIdeasEndsDoneMomentsInspirationSeeingPossibilityInnovationBrilliantBoundariesPushingLeapGood IdeasExploringBreakthroughFrontiersIdeas And Innovation Author:Steven Johnson