Leadership Mashups
Innovation
Created by Adam Walz
"Creativity involves breaking out of established patternspatterns in order to look at things in a different way."
—Edward de Bono
"I can't u
nderstand why people
are frightened of new ideas.
—John Cage
I'm frightened of old ones."
"Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the
shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes
a difference.“
—Nolan Bushnell
“If you're not
failing every now and again,
it's a sign you're not
doing anything very
innovative.”—Woody Allen
The most successful people are those who are good at Plan B.
—James Yorke
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost.
Now put the foundations under them.
That is where they should be.
—Henry David Thoreau
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get the old ones out.
—Dee Hock
All new ideas begin in a
non-conforming mind
that questions some tenet of the
conventional wisdom. —H. G. Rickover
Perhaps, then, if we
listen attentively,
we shall hear… a faint flutter of wings;
—Albert Camus
Great ideas, it is said,
come into the world as gently as
doves.
the gentle stirring of life and
hope.
"Great is the human who has not lost his childlike
heart."— Mencius
"The best way to kill creativity in a
team is letting the boss speak first." —Victoria Holtz
“Beware of the tyranny of making small changes to small things. Rather, make big changes to big things."
—Roger Enrico
"All it takes is one idea to solve an impossible problem."
—Robert H. Schuller
“Without experimentation, we might all still be living in caves and using rocks as tools."
—Stefan Thomke
but then neither is survival.—Andrew Papageorge
Innovation is not absolutely necessary,
Take the time to do it right, or
make the time to do it again.
—Daniel L. May
"Where all think
alike, no one thinks
very much."
—Walter Lippman
Image Attributions
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Slide 2: http://flickr.com/photos/jaredmoo/2113943480/
Slide 3: http://flickr.com/photos/viknanda/354815944/
Slide 4: http://flickr.com/photos/pagedooley/2047183582/
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Slide 8: http://flickr.com/photos/emdot/73348258/
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Slide 10: http://flickr.com/photos/kidisland/665527171/
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Slide 16: http://flickr.com/photos/ul_marga/755378645/
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