“Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview – nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.”

– Stephen Jay Gould

“Building a culture of continuous innovation threatens the power base of a critical few, and disrupts the way people think about their jobs and the organization. Even if change is for the better, people tend to want to avoid change.”

– Braden Kelley

“Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity… and these in turn rely on the education of our people.”

– Julia Gillard

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“Succeeding through creation often requires innovation – figuring out how to put together and add value to things that just weren’t there before.”

– Joel Podolny

“The ultimate goal of a ‘learning fast’ approach to innovation is to embed in your culture the ability to extract the key insights from your pursuits and the ability to quickly recognize how to modify your project plan to take advantage of unexpected learnings, and the flexibility and empowerment to make the necessary course corrections.”

– Braden Kelley

“Where innovation comes in, is in figuring out the right problem to be solved, the right question to ask, and then figuring out a better way to solve the problem. You can’t just come with a solution for today’s problem. Nothing stays the same.”

– Rick Hassman

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“There isn’t anyone that doesn’t need to be a creative problem solver.”

– Brad Anderson, Former CEO of Best Buy

“What do we hope to learn from this effort? When you start from this question, every project becomes a series of questions you hope to answer, and each answer moves you closer to identifying the key market insight and achieving your expected innovation.”

– Braden Kelley

“Problem solving without the creative element is not truly innovative.”

– Ellen Bowman

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“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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“It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.”

– Katharine Hepburn

“But when it comes to innovation, it is not as important whether you fail fast or fail slow or whether you fail at all, but how fast you learn. And make no mistake, you don’t have to fail to innovate (although there are always some obstacles along the way). With the right approach to innovation you can learn quickly from failures AND successes.”

– Braden Kelley

“Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.”

– William Pollard

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