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Quote |
Author |
Company |
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We bring together the best ideas
–
turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies. |
Jack Welch |
GE |
|
From a management standpoint, it
is very important to know
how to
unleash people's inborn
creativity. My concept is that
anybody has creative ability,
but very few people know how to
use it. |
Akio Morita |
Sony |
|
The
very word possibility creates a
mental climate conducive to
creativity. |
Robert H. Schuller |
Hour of Power |
|
Since around 2000, we let engineers
spend 20% of their time working
on whatever they want, and we
trust that they'll build
interesting things.
Google's 9 Notions of Innovation |
Marissa
Mayer |
Google |
|
Creativity loves restraint.
Give people
a vision, rules about how to get
there and deadlines. People
think of creativity as this sort
of unbridled thing, but
engineers thrive on constraints.
They love to think their way out
of that little box: 'We know you
said it was impossible, but
we're going to do this, this,
and that to get us there.' |
Marissa
Mayer |
Google |
|
If you give people tools, and they use
their natural ability and their curiosity, they will develop things in
ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have
expected.
|
Bill Gates |
Microsoft |
|
Today more than ever, we must
cultivate the creative and
innovative potential of every
employee in the organization.
Everyone in the organization
must be capable of thinking
creatively and be willing to try
new approaches which transcend
their own roles, departments and
processes. |
Andrew Papageorge |
GoInnovative |
|
There’s a phrase in
Buddhism, ‘Beginner’s mind.’ It’s wonderful to have a beginner’s
mind....
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Steve Jobs |
Apple |
|
At
P&G, we think of creativity
not as a mysterious gift of the
talented few but as the everyday
task of making nonobvious
connections – bringing together
things that don't normally go
together.
One way to do that is to look at contradictions
in the marketplace. |
Craig Wynett |
Procter & Gamble |
|
People have a lot of
great ideas,
if you give them space to do their thing and create an environment that is
collaborative, not competitive – if you never say "that's silly" when they're
thinking out of the box. |
Mark Dean |
IBM |
|
The mandatory partner for
passion is
diversity. People with different scientific backgrounds will bring different
frames of reference to a
problem and can spark an exciting and dynamic
exchange of ideas. |
John Talley |
University of Cambridge |
|
The
best way to kill creativity in a
team is letting the boss speak
first |
Victoria Holtz |
|
|
If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original. |
Ken
Robinson |
University of Warwick |
|
It's unbelievable what you can
get done in a day with a
focused, motivated and creative
team. When you give people the
time to do the thing that always
seems "just out of reach"
people's creativity cracks wide
open. |
Joe
Kraus |
JotSpot |
|
I
don's try to encourage
creativity for creativity sake,
instead, I try to encourage
creative solutions to real
problems. |
Esther Dyson |
EDventure Holdings |
