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Innovation Quotes of the Day – April 17, 2012

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“Successful organizations understand that attracting and engaging external talent is as important as finding and hiring the best internal talent.”

– Braden Kelley

“There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.”

– Bill Joy – Sun Co-Founder

“There is an innovation war beginning, and you need to make sure you are fighting it outside your organization — not inside.”

– Braden Kelley (from commissioned white paper – FREE from InnoCentive)

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Innovation Quotes of the Day – April 16, 2012

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“Innovation can come from anyone, but it is required from everyone for an organization to remain successful.”

– Braden Kelley

“When it comes to innovating, the only limit is the one of our creativity.”

– Cristina Caiado Rocha

“Innovation can come from anywhere, but you must be looking everywhere to find it.”

– Braden Kelley

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Innovation Quotes of the Day – April 15, 2012

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“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”

– Albert Einstein

“In addition to identifying the value that you can bring to the external talent community, you must also identify which connection points will multiply the attractive power of the sources of value you choose to focus on.”

– Braden Kelley (from commissioned white paper – FREE from InnoCentive)

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Innovation Quotes of the Day – April 14, 2012

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“We decided to embrace open innovation at Psion to be faster and competitively unpredictable.”

– John Conoley – Psion Teklogix

“The role of HR in the near future will not be just to recruit, develop, and manage staff, but also to build and curate talent pools. The HR profession will have to build new core competences in network orchestration and managing talent – no matter where the talent lives (inside or outside the organization).”

– Braden Kelley (from commissioned white paper – FREE from InnoCentive)

“Open innovation has proved to be a successful business strategy for General Mills.”

– Mark Addicks – General Mills

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Innovation Quotes of the Day – April 13, 2012

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“Because, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.”

– Jeff Bezos
– Submitted by Mim (Milana Karlo) Bizic

“Knowledge Management is more about ‘How do I?’ while Innovation is more about ‘Why don’t we?'”

– Braden Kelley

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Innovation Quotes of the Day – April 12, 2012

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“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

– Steve Jobs
– Submitted by Lorna Tyrtania

“When you’re playing king of the mountain, you don’t stop playing when you get to the top.”

– Braden Kelley

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”

– Albert Einstein
– Submitted by Carlos Torres

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Innovation Quotes of the Day – April 11, 2012

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“Innovation transforms the useful seeds of invention into solutions valued above every existing alternative – and of course widely adopted.”

– Braden Kelley

“Innovation is fostered by information gathered from new connections; from insights gained by journeys into other disciplines or places; from active, collegial networks and fluid, open boundaries. Innovation arises from ongoing circles of exchange, where information is not just accumulated or stored, but created. Knowledge is generated anew from connections that weren’t there before.”

– Margaret J. Wheatley, author of Leadership and the New Science

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Innovation Quotes of the Day – April 10, 2012

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“Failing doesn’t make you a failure. Giving up, accepting your failure, refusing to try again, does.”

– Richard Exley

“We must create clarity in innovation language, vision, strategy, goals, and participation for a continuous innovation culture to be created.”

– Braden Kelley

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Innovation Quotes of the Day – April 9, 2012

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“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”

– Will Rogers

“Invention is driven by ideas while innovation is driven by insights.”

– Braden Kelley

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Innovation Quotes of the Day – April 8, 2012

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“Common sense is a collection of prejudices acquired by age 18”

– Albert Einstein
– Submitted by Bob Housden
(“Had scientists relied on common sense we’d still believe the Sun orbits Earth – thank goodness for innovative thinking”)

“Innovation is a gift. What are you doing to ensure that employees want to give it?”

– Braden Kelley

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