“I think innovation as a discipline needs to go back and get rethought and revived. There are so many models to talk about innovation, there are so many typologies of innovation, and you have to find a good innovation metric that truly captures the innovation performance of a company.” ThinkingNeedsCompanyDisciplineModelsPerformancesInnovationCaptureMetricsTypology Author:Indra Nooyi
“At the crowded Costanzi Theater in Rome, while I was listening to the orchestral performance of your overwhelming Futurist music,1 together with my Futurist friends Marinetti, Boccioni, Carrà, Balla, Soffici, Papini, and Cavacchioli, there came to my mind the idea of a new art, one that only you can create: the Art of Noises, a logical consequence of your marvelous innovations.” MindArtIdeasTogetherListeningConsequencePerformancesTheaterInnovationNoiseLogicalOverwhelmingRomeMarvelousCrowdedFuturist Author:Luigi Russolo
“Some entrepreneurs have a bad habit of taking personal credit for all improvements and innovations at their startups. If you penalize or ignore employee initiatives, you can be certain that they won't be repeated, and motivation for more conventional performance will suffer.” IfsMotivationCertainSufferingHabitPerformancesInnovationEntrepreneurCreditImprovementEmployeeInitiativeConventionalBad Habits Author:Martin Zwilling
“Sustaining innovations are the key to consistent performance, whereas disruptive innovations are the key to dramatic changes in power.” KeysPerformancesInnovationDramaticConsistentSustainingDisruptiveDramatic ChangeDisruptive Innovation Author:Geoffrey Moore
“Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the financial side, if you're really listening and reacting to the best ideas of the people we have.” PeopleIfsYearsLooksKindIdeasLastsSidesResultsEconomyFiveProductsListeningPerformancesInnovationFinancialFantasticFive YearsReactingPipelineLast Five YearsFinancial Results Author:Steve Ballmer
“Public Schools too often fail because they are shielded from the very force that improves performance and sparks innovation in nearly every other human enterprise - competition.” HumansSchoolForceLibertyFailingPerformancesInnovationCompetitionLibertarianEnterpriseSparksLibertarianismPublic School Author:Bob Lutz
“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
“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.” LeadershipCompanyCommunicationConsciencePerformancesOrganizationInnovationStrategyDimensionsCollaborationEngagementExecutionImprovingDividendsElevatingStakeholderPartnering Book:The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything Source: The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything
“One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational, or other), the less likely it is to harbor innovative thinking. Common and deep-seated beliefs, widespread norms, and behavior and performance standards are enemies of new ideas. Any society that prides itself on being harmonious and homogeneous is very unlikely to catalyze idiosyncratic thinking. Suppression of innovation need not be overt. It can be simply a matter of peoples walking around in tacit agreement and full comfort with the status quo.” ThinkingWayNeedsIdeasMatterCultureBeliefCommonEnemyPrideWalkingComfortBehaviorDiversityStandardsPerformancesStrongerInnovationAgreementNew IdeasStatus QuoNormUnlikelyInnovativeHarborsHarmoniousBasicsSuppressionTacitHomogeneous Author:Nicholas Negroponte