Challenge Identity

Change Without Announcing It

Convert Action Into Consequence

Create Breadth Over Time

Create Discontinuity

Create Divergence

Create Echoes

Create Impermanence

Create Instability

Create Interruption

Create Surprise

Disturb

Escape Gravity

Leave Residue

Outlive Ownership

Quietly Generate Wealth

Quietly Multiply

Reward Adaptation

Reward Boldness

Reward Circulation

Reward Discontinuity

Reward Flexibility

Reward Forgetting

Reward Temptation

Transform Whatever They Touch

Turn Resources Into Wealth

Violate Expectations

innovation

is a bottom-up, decentralized, and unpredictable thing, which, nevertheless is capable of being managed via a new management discipline.

Innovation is a bottoms-up, decentralized, and unpredictable thing, but that doesn't mean it cannot be managed. It can, but to do so requires a new management discipline, one that needs to be mastered not just by practicing entrepreneurs seeking to build the next big thing but also by the people who support them, nurture them, and hold them accountable.

is a post enlightenment replacement for 'progress' which, in contrast to the latter term, is detached from the dreams of universal benefit emphasized during the enlightenment.

What's interesting is that 'progress', a term long associated with this point of view, has recently gone out of fashion. This reflects an awareness that the continuing poverty of a major portion of the world's populaiton along with obvious signs of environmental crisis don't exactly add up to progress in the grand sense. A more popular term in business and government these days is 'innovation', a concept that suggests dynamic change but something detached from dreams of universal benefit emphasized during the elightentment' (Winner Interview : 105)

is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure.

Innovation is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure. (Albert Einstein)

innovation is saying 'no' to a thousand things. Steve Jobs

is a thing whereby the greatest innovator of all is time.

Time is the greatest innovator. Francis Bacon

is the ability to see change as an opportunity not a threat.

Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity not a threat Steve Jobs

is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.

innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.

is this amazing intersection between someone's imagination and the reality in which they live.

Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone's imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is, many companies don't have great imagination, but their view of reality tells them that it's impossible to do what they imagine. We let imagination win. If you ask customers what they love about our stores, they love the things we imagined. Ron Johnson, Senior VP of retail operations, Apple.

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