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Business for some is a dirty word and for others is everything. The
feeling is mutual, for some in business see creativity as a dirty word,
too. But the fact is that business only succeeds by constantly bringing
new things that are better than their competitors’ offerings to customers
who are prepared to pay for this advantage. Business needs creativity even
more than artists. And that’s saying something.
See also
climate*, conservatism, constraints, failure, goals, managing*, preparation,
problems, rationality, risk, vision
Quotes
‘But there is only one person I blame for getting shafted, and that’s myself.
I went into the deal which I thought would secure the future of Orange Aids with
culpable impetuosity. I had been used to doing business on a handshake and my
work of honour, and I made the error of actually believing what the men in the
pin-striped suits told me.’
— Trevor Baylis
‘The most important invention that will come out of the corporate research
lab in the future will be the corporation itself.’
— John Seely Brown
‘There’s usually some process by which a potentially great idea gets
prostituted into something lacklustre, or by which the wrong idea gets put
forward.’
— Clayton Christensen
‘If you want creative workers, give them enough
time to play.’
— John Cleese
‘business has only two basic functions-marketing and innovation.’
— Peter F. Drucker
‘Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous
decision.’
— Peter F. Drucker
‘The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts the moment you get up in the
morning and does not stop until you get to the office.’
— Robert Frost
‘If you’re too focused on your current business, it’s hard to change and
concentrate on innovating.’
— Bill Gates
‘There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is
willing to risk his fortune.’
— J. Paul Getty
‘Companies do not do new things because they understand it but because they
feel it.’
— Gary Hamel
‘Ideas that transform industries almost never come from inside those
industries.’
— Gary Hamel
‘In the new economy those who live by the sword will be shot by those who
don’t.’
— Gary Hamel
‘Never hire or promote in your own image. It is
foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to
replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those
whose perspective, ability, and
judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it
requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.’
— Dee Hock
‘The only companies that innovate are those who believe that innovation is
vital for their future.’
— John Harvey Jones
‘The way innovating companies are designed leaves ambiguities, overlaps,
decision conflicts or decision vacuums in some parts of the organisation. People
rail at this, curse it–and invent innovative ways to overcome it.’
— Rosabeth Moss Kanter
‘An innovation will usually suggest its own market.’
— John Kay
‘A powerful new idea can kick around unused in a company for years, not
because its merits are not recognized, but because nobody has assumed the
responsibility for converting it from words into action.’
— Theodore Levitt
‘The trouble with much of the advice business is getting today about the need
to be more vigorously creative is, essentially, that its advocates have
generally failed to distinguish between the relatively easy process of being
creative in the abstract and the infinitely more difficult process of being
innovationist in the concrete.’
— Theodore Levitt
‘An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.’
— Akio Morita
‘Most organisations say they want creativity, but really they do not.’
— Jeffrey Pfeffer
‘Whatever made you successful in the past won’t in the future.’
— Lew Platt
‘A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see
things in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.’
— Charles M. Schwab
‘Innovation, I believe, is the only way that America will regain the
initiative in a global dynamic economy.’
— John Sculley
‘I came to the conclusion long ago that limits to
innovation have
less to do with technology or creativity than organizational agility. Inspired
individuals can only do so much.’
— Ray Stata
‘We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff
that drives productivity lies--in the minds of those
closest to the work. It's been there in front of our noses all along while we've
been running around chasing robots and reading books on how to become
Japanese--or at least manage like them.’
— Jack Welch
‘The things we fear most in organizations—fluctuations, disturbances,
imbalances—are the primary source of creativity.’
— Margaret J. Wheatley
‘The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a
godsend, in future will be a public danger.’
— Alfred North Whitehead
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