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Organizations are not designed for innovation. Quite the contrary, they are designed for ongoing operations.

Vijay Govindarajan ‎Chris Trimble (2013)

The capacity to exercise a relatively high degree of imagination, ingenuity and creativity in the solution of organizational problems is widely, not narrowly, distributed in the population.

Douglas McGregor The Human Side of Enterprise (1960)

A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation, and encourages perseverance. In so doing, it transforms great talent into exceptional accomplishment.

Gary Hamel Gary Hamel quoted in: Richard L. Daft (2014)

Innovation is the key to the future, but basic research is the key to future innovation.

Jerome Isaac Friedman

Dignity generates responsibility, responsibility generates creativity.

Brunello Cucinelli

Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.

Gary Hamel

Technology and innovation must act as a means of just social change—to reduce social gaps and inequality, to ensure that every person on this planet has a chance to enjoy the fruits thereof, and to make the world a better place.

Yoel Esteron

Management’ll never go for it. First, it’s live-animal research, which is controversial. Management hates controversy. Second, it’s something innovative, which means Management will hate it on principle.

Connie Willis Bellwether (1996)

You cannot be destructive and be creative at the same time....

Benjamin Creme The State of the World 2010, public lecture in New York City, USA (2010)

When the knowledge base of an industry is both complex and expanding and the sources of expertise are widely dispersed, the locus of innovation will be found in networks of learning, rather than in individual firms.

Walter W. Powell

I'm trying to use the creativity, always as a tool to improve lives.

Anna Heringer Anna Heringer Interview: Leave No Waste, But Knowledge (2021)

Creativity thinks up new things. Innovation does new things. The difference speaks for itself. Yet the fluent advisers to business seldom make the distinction. They tend to rate ideas more by their novelty than by their practicability.

Theodore Levitt Theodore Levitt (1974)

Creativity is the basis of all innovation, and although it is doubtful that it can be taught, creativity should be nurtured in those who have it.

Jerome Isaac Friedman

When we have done more traveling together, you will come to see that occasionally we must be other than forthright with local authorities. Many of them lack imagination and react poorly to creativity and unexpected innovation.

Matthew Hughes Hespira (2009)

I work... looking at the local materials.., the local energy sources.., then adding global creativity...

Anna Heringer Aga Khan Program Lecture (2018)

China’s economy faces major challenges... Catch-up growth is... different from innovation-based growth.

Keyu Jin The New China Playbook (2023)

I'm often asked, "Do you want to send people back to the Stone Age?" Of course not, but it's not a matter of how old a material is. It's a matter of our creative ability to use it today.

Anna Heringer Architecture is a Tool to Improve Lives (2021)

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. (1982; quoted in the Introduction by Jeffrey M. Elliot)

Maya Angelou Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989)

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