“Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we’ve had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the financial side, if you’re really listening and reacting to the best ideas of the people we have.”

– Steve Ballmer

“The key is to pursue your innovation efforts as a discrete set of experiments designed to learn certain things, and instrumenting each project phase in such a way that the desired learning is achieved.”

– Braden Kelley

“Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.”

– Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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