194 quotes found
“There is no such thing as passive receiving of Tradition. He who receives, the disciple, is always must always be the scene of a creation. To receive is to create, to innovate! 'The petrification...”
“People who can solve problems in a new way are the innovators.”
“In a society caught up in the race for the better, limits on change are experienced as a threat. The commitments to the better at any cost makes the good impossible at all costs. Failure to renew t...”
“A positive strategy should focus on innovation.”
“Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. Throw away the solution and you get the problem back. Sometimes the problem has mutated or disappeared. Often it is still t...”
“Bigwig: "I can't think why he didn't convince Threarah."Hazel: "Because Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself.”
“We need to act and embrace uncertainty as a pool of opportunity.”
“Innovation was a curious thing. It never failed to amaze him. And yet this place confirmed what theyd long known: that truly disruptive innovation rarely came from the expected sources. Theyd had s...”
“Truth be told, nobody thought Dells direct business model would work, at least back in the early 90s. As Bill Sharpe, head of the advertising agency that held the Dell Canada account from 1996 to 2...”
“The new world with more technology, more connectivity, more innovation, and more advantages is less forgiving than the one we left behind”
“The garage is the space for the hacker, the tinkerer, the maker. The garage is not defined by a single field or industry; instead, it is defined by the eclectic interests of its inhabitants. It is ...”
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time.”
“It is not. The aspiring leader has been set up to fail. He just doesn't recognize it yet. The first few months go well, but reality soon sets in. It is not easy for one person to create change in a...”
“Managers maintain the present while leaders create the future.”
“The only hope for social networking sites from a business point of view is for a magic formula to appear in which some method of violating privacy and dignity becomes acceptable.”
“Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.”
“There isn't anything you can't make run a little better, a little faster, a little smoother, if you take the time to analyse it and component-split the processes.”
“The worst question ever asked, is the one which is never asked.”
“The quality revolution in the latter half of the 20th century has taken us to a point where all products that reach asupermarket shelf work. The competitive differentiators of the future will be pr...”
