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"There is a new wave of innovation taking place inside many organizations that gives people an opportunity to make important, innovative contributions to business and to society.
My beliefs about innovation have evolved and are now centered on three basic tenets:
Most of us can be far more innovative in business than we give ourselves credit for—especially when we realize innovation is a lot broader than just invention.
We can quickly learn to more innovatively observe and then transfer these innovations from one category to another.
Being more innovative is, in fact, learnable and even self-teachable.
[...] Innovation is more than an "I" thing... it's a "WE" thing. It is true that we must make a real, conscious effort to improve our own innovation skills. But there are also important changes that we can and should bring about in the organization.
Together, this will allow us to begin leading innovation from the new middle."
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"Coverage of the supposedly meteoric revenue growth of a number of Silicon Valley startups—most recently Uber, Snapchat, and Instagram—whose hugely ambitious and driven founders had genius ideas and attracted massive amounts of venture funding, has fueled unrealistic notions: what a good idea looks like; how fast a founder should expect to be able to attract investment capital; and how quickly, even with a really great idea, growth will take off. If we use unicorns as a guide for our own startups, it appears that success springs up fast and out of the middle of nowhere.
This mythology can lead founders to abandon their efforts too soon because they're not seeing rapid revenue growth and can't get funding. They haven't planned in a realistic way for the first three or often more years of false starts, missteps, and market resistance which are generally required before growth takes off."
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"Maybe it's a career change, a health and fitness transformation or a personal project or side business you want to start, but for some reason—whatever it is—you haven't started yet.
'Not enough time.'
'Not enough resources.'
'Not enough support.'
Statements like these not only limit your potential but hinder your productivity. In order to find the time, the resources and the support you need, you first need to GET MOMENTUM. You need more than a little motivation, but a true forward movement. Momentum means you're moving, and things are happening. It means you're making progress, and it feels good! Momentum is as personal in nature as it is different for everyone and for every project. What works for someone else may not work for you. The key is to practice thinking bigger and more creatively to put yourself in a position to move beyond the inertia that is holding you back from you dreams."
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The Internet ... is a massive and collaborative work of art— something billions of us contribute to every millisecond, with every Instagram photo, every "like," every message-board post, every tweet, every eBay review, every streamed video or song.
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"Status reports. Emails. Weather reports. From the moment your alarm jolts you awake, you're bombarded with data. Here's an eye-opening fact for you: the amount of data you likely consume in a day—34 gigabytes—would fill dozens of pickup trucks if you printed it all out.
So what's the problem with all this data? This: the majority of numbers you read in newspapers, hear on TV, and see at work are either wrong or misleading—or both."
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