Innovation Mindset Quotes & Sayings

EVERYONE MAKES MISTAKES, EVEN THE PERSONS WE LOVE. — Nicholas Sparks

Strategy has no value if your culture and leadership mindset are wrong — Tony Dovale

A more diverse force is a stronger force. A more diverse mindset makes you a stronger force. If you have the same outlook, if you have the same mindset, you don't get much innovation. — Ray Mabus

The mindset, vision, competency, capability, culture and marketing opportunity are all great starting point for business model innovation. — Pearl Zhu

The hard part of ReThinking, is most people don't usually do much normal REAL thinking anyway. They live their lives on automatic reaction. — Tony Dovale

Creating new products and services differs from making minor enhancements to existing ones. The first must focus on innovation and adaptability, whereas the second usually focuses on efficiency and optimization. Efficiency delivers products and services that we can think of. Innovation delivers products that we can barely imagine. Efficiency and optimization are appropriate drivers for a production project, whereas innovation and creativity should drive an exploration-type project. A production mindset can restrict our vision to what appears doable. An exploration mindset helps us explore what seems impossible. — Jim Highsmith

Creativity is the new currency, so, are you credited with new thoughts or overdrawn in old thinking? — Onyi Anyado

The right mindset is the most powerful force we can use to positively change the world. — Tony Dovale

The mindset that is needed, the capabilities that are needed, the metrics that are needed, the whole culture that is needed for discontinuous innovation, are fundamentally different. — Vijay Govindarajan

The narrowness of mind is the biggest handicap for innovation. — Pearl Zhu

Innovative ideas aren't generated in structured, authoritarian environments but in an adaptive culture based on the principles of self-organization and self-discipline. — Jim Highsmith

The origin of innovation and entrepreneurship is a creative mindset — Michael Harris

In The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs, Carmine Gallo captures the true mindset of Jobs and Apple. This book is not just for the techie and marketing crowd, although they will gain valuable insight that can be applied to their worlds. It is also for anyone who loves technology and wants to understand how to create simple devices that are easy to use and can impact our lives. — Tim Bajarin

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe. — Fay Weldon

Innovation is a mindset, and that's where governance comes in. — Pearl Zhu

Until Africa changes it's Mindset - It will forever be a "basket case" looking for international support, funding and charity.
We need to Rethink Innovation — Tony Dovale

Photographer's advice: Stand in the right place. — David Douglas Duncan

The real problem is that most people fear failure, and thus take no action. They really they should be fearful of their thoughts that cause their failure to take action! — Tony Dovale

A creative mindset is in increasingly high demand: employers are vying for workers who are able to dream big and deliver big with the next must-have product. Creative thinking fuels innovation, it leads to new goods and services, creates jobs and delivers substantial economic rewards. — Jim Hunt

The only way for something human to feel human is to convince others that it is. — Graham Moore

IF we don't start to rethink how we are acting now ... We will pay the price later for our "old-stinking-thinking" style — Tony Dovale

The mind is an innovation engine of any human progress, but also the root cause of almost all human problems. — Pearl Zhu

IT'S TIME TO LEARN YOUR A.B.C.s

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BE CONFIDENT
Confidence is a feeling, feel it.

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BE CREATIVE
Creativity is an ability, enable it.

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BE CURIOUS
Curiosity is a desire, desire it.

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BE COMPASSIONATE
Compassion is an awareness, be aware.

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BE CHARITABLE
Charity is generous, be generous.

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BE CONSIDERATE
Consideration is thoughtful, think.

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BE COURTEOUS
Courtesy is a mindset, be mindful.

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BE COACHABLE
Coachability is a willingness, be willing.

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BE COMMITTED
Commitment is purpose, live on purpose.

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BE CARING
Caring is giving, give. — Richie Norton

An Appreciative inquiry Conversation is the catalyst for strengths based innovation. — Tony Dovale

We make our lives by what we love. — John Cage

Your habit of avoiding mental and emotional discomfort is your #1 reason for your being stuck where you are in life. — Tony Dovale

Exponential Results Requires Exponential Thinking and High Performance Teamworking with Growth Oriented Mindsets. — Tony Dovale

Like time-management, change-management, doesn't really exist antmore ... Today's most valuable mindset must include the SWIFTA framework the be a change-driver. — Tony Dovale

Existing businesses aspiring to become adaptive corporations need to commit to understanding what exactly an adaptive innovator is and how that differs from both systemic designers and knowledge workers. In the end, they will actually need conscious planning to move them from a decades-imbedded orientation of knowledge work, to a new mindset of continuous adaptive innovation centered on the customer. — John Sculley