Corner Quote by Lynne Doughtie

Innovation is the lifeblood of an organization. Knowing how to lead and work with creative people requires knowledge and action that often goes against…

— Max De Pree

Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.

— Edward Felten

Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions…

— Gary Hamel

Innovation often originates outside existing organizations, in part because successful organizations acquire a commitment to the status quo and a resistance to ideas that…

— Nathan Rosenberg

There's a huge misconception that innovation is mostly about inventing or coming up with cool new things. More often than not, innovation is about…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

Organizations can get in the way of innovation, because if people are all bound up, and if they don't know if they get to…

— Carol Bartz

But innovation is more than a new method. It is a new view of the universe, as one of risk rather than of chance…

— Peter Drucker

Innovation is a subset of creativity. Innovation often deals with product launches and is often relegated to the C-suite or to heads of R&D…

— Josh Linkner

To most observers, innovation is a solitary process that requires creativity and genius, perhaps even greatness. It can't, in their view, be managed or…

— Richard J. Foster

If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.

— Steven Johnson

Innovation, like creativity, is an amorphous concept. It's the holy grail of business, but achieving it - even merely explaining it - is lightning-in-a-bottle…

— Adam Lashinsky

Innovation is all about people. Innovation thrives when the population is diverse, accepting and willing to cooperate.

— Vivek Wadhwa