Becoming Quote by Kurt Eichenwald

I've never commented much about my experience at Enron except to say, when I was there, it was a much more pipeline and asset-oriented…

— Richard Kinder

“Visionary companies make some of their best moves by experimentation, trial and error, opportunism, and—quite literally—accident. What looks in retrospect like brilliant foresight and…

— Jim Collins

“Here was a guy who had taken much of the Silicon Valley ethic behind moving quickly and running organizations free of bureaucratic hierarchies and…

— Ashlee Vance

At a well-run company, good ideas are embraced no matter where they come from.

— Belinda Johnson

Enron - although an extreme case - is hardly the only company with a hollow set of values.

— Patrick Lencioni

“Thinking of stuff is not innovation. Tinkering with stuff is not innovation. Even inventing stuff is not innovation. Innovation instead, when it’s done right,…

— Grant Lichtman

Successful companies obviously have people with ideas and energy.

— Hasso Plattner

“Power and profit structures're out of cahoots with current technology. Aware of new inventions, corporations put them aside, waiting for competitive reasons until they're…

— John Cage

“The idea of innovation is the idea of progress stripped of the aspirations of the Enlightenment, scrubbed clean of the horrors of the twentieth…

— Jill Lepore

“We kind of missed the boat on that," he recalled. " So we needed to catch up real fast." The mark of an innovative…

— Walter Isaacson

“...Why are corporations so fleeting?...Instead of imitating the freewheeling city, these businesses minimize the very interactions that lead to new ideas. They erect walls…

— Jonah Lehrer

“(Productive Workers + Innovative Products = Industry Leadership, no?)”

— Max DePree