#ovation

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow. ↗

— Charles Bower

#ideas #innovation #death

Without death there is little innovation. Extinction - death of a species - is part and parcel of evolutionary change. In the absence of this kind of extinction new developments would not prosper. In our own history, periods when ideas have been perpetuated by dogma, preventing the replacement of old by new ideas, have also been times of stultifying stagnation. The Dark Ages in western society were the most static, least innovative of times. So the fact that trilobites were replaced by batches of successive species through their long history was a testimony to their evolutionary vigour. ↗

— Richard Fortey

#death #evolution #extinction #innovation #trilobites

With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just for today but for tomorrow. ↗

— Max McKeown

#leadership #strategic #strategic-planning #strategy #leadership

The innovative leader has to be an arsonist and a firefighter. ↗

— Paul Sloane

#fire #innovation #innovative #leader #inspirational

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change. ↗

— Brené Brown

#creativity #innovation #vulnerability #change

We know that defence work results in more than great defence hardware - it can drive innovation and advances in all areas of our life. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#areas #defence #drive #great #hardware

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#gains #innovation #markets #most #organizations

Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer. ↗

— W. Edwards Deming

#customer #innovation #producer

My son now is 22 months old, he's been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing ovations on the drums. He's been with us since he was 10 weeks old, he's been on the drums. He's got blisters on his fingers before he can even talk. ↗

— Dick Dale

#before #blisters #drums #even #fingers

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#constraining #dangerous #destructive #dogmatic #innovation