"Great minds always stay nimble because they've learned how to move on. Einstein worked on big problems until he died. The artists we most admire transform themselves and their work from time to time."
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-- Marco Marsan, from 'Think Naked' 9/3/2003
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"The distinctive potential contribution of the human being… at every level of the organization stems from his capacity to think, to plan, to exercise judgment, to be creative, to direct and control his own behavior."
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-- Douglas MacGregor 8/1/2003
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"Just as athletes work to master not only their physical skills but also the frame of mind that allows them to perform to their ability, so creatively healthy people must maintain and continuously improve the frame of mind that allows them to perform as best they can creatively."
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-- Jeff Mauzy and Richard Harriman, in 'Creativity Inc.' 8/1/2003
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"A person who expects that the problem at hand is solvable, and that he or she is capable of crafting the solution, will find that expectation shapes his awareness and performance in productive ways. When you expect that what you are working on will have a successful outcome, you more readily dip into resources and energy you would not otherwise expend because you believe the extra effort will be rewarded. Expectations become self-fulfilling."
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-- Jeff Mauzy and Richard Harriman, in 'Creativity Inc.' 8/1/2003
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"Athletes know that envisioning themselves playing better, rehearsing each move mentally, reinforces their expectations and boosts their performance. So too in creative efforts: People who envision and expect creative results in their work get creative results more often than people who do not."
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-- Jeff Mauzy and Richard Harriman, in 'Creativity Inc.' 8/1/2003
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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead were there is no path and leave a trail."
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 6/6/2003
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"A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing."
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-- Charles M. Schwab 5/7/2003
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"To survive and prosper in the long-term, people in companies need to create and innovate. And they need to do so as regularly and reliably as they breathe."
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-- Jeff Mauzy and Richard Harriman, in 'Creativity Inc.' 5/5/2003
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"Everyone can benefit from looking beyond what they are doing today to anticipate the future and to develop ideas that will bring stronger results."
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-- Elaine Dundon, from 'The Seeds of Innovation' 5/5/2003
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"Innovators are those people who can zoom out to see a broader view of the world and see new ideas registering on their Innovation Radar Screens before others even know they exist. They stay aware of what is happening behind, in front of and beside them, knowing that insights can come from any source. Their research antennae are at full mast, looking for signs in the global world of what may be useful in the future."
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-- Elaine Dundon, from 'The Seeds of Innovation' 5/5/2003
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"Being open-minded means being willing to change perceptions or 'mental models' when new information surfaces."
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-- Elaine Dundon, from 'The Seeds of Innovation' 4/21/2003
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"Everyone has the ability to be creative. Everyone has the ability to connect one idea with another, to find an idea in another department, organization, or industry, and connect it with another to solve the challenge at hand."
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-- Elaine Dundon, in 'The Seeds of Innovation' 2/27/2003
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"By definition, if you don't change the rules, you aren't a revolutionary, and if you don't think different, you won't change the rules."
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-- Guy Kawasaki, in 'Rules for Revolutionaries' 2/26/2003
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"A revolutionary refuses to solve problems as they are presented. Instead, a revolutionary uses thought processes like… consider(ing) the problem in the broadest context that's feasible, start(ing) at the goal and work(ing) backwards and do(ing) the opposite of the obvious answer."
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-- Guy Kawasaki, in 'Rules for Revolutionaries' 2/26/2003
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"Great teams are made of people who see the current state-of-the-art as a fraction of what could be."
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-- Guy Kawasaki, in 'Rules for Revolutionaries' 2/26/2003
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"Innovators are heretics, challenging the beliefs that other people take for granted."
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-- Gary Hamel 1/31/2003
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"Locked inside the individual is the infinite creative capacity for change."
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-- Bunji Tozawa and Norman Bodek, in 'The Idea Generator: Quick and Easy Kaizen' 11/19/2002
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"We grew up on the 3 R's: reading, writing and 'rithmetic... But today we need more. Today's basic 3 I's are intuition, inspiration and innovation."
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-- Grace McGartland, from 'Thunderbolt Thinking' 11/5/2002
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"Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself."
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-- Dorris Lessing 10/31/2002
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"Inventing the future requires the ability to leave the past and continually replace your old habits with new ones. It takes conviction to argue with the status quo, and faith to believe in the possibility of what is to come next."
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-- Grace McGartland, from 'Thunderbolt Thinking' 9/6/2002
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