Continue to expose yourself to new ideas. Trust your instincts and think for yourself. Make art, or at least value it. ~ Samuel L. Jackson
Category: Innovation
On Innovation: The Compelling Force of All Times
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit. ~ Ansel Adams
Jeff Bezos on Innovation
If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful. ~ Jeff Bezos
Inspired by Beethoven: Sharing My Music
As I reread my post from this morning, I thought about the feeling Beethoven was describing as he worked to discover his beautiful music. I have experienced that same feeling of being "in the zone" and the resulting innovation that comes from the creative effort. It is an amazing feeling. I not only have … Continue reading Inspired by Beethoven: Sharing My Music
Beethoven on Innovation: The Glow of Enthusiasm
From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again, it disappears, it plunges into a chaos of diverse emotions. I catch it again, I seize it, I embrace it with delight....I multiply it by modulations, and at last I triumph in the … Continue reading Beethoven on Innovation: The Glow of Enthusiasm
On Innovation: Moby Dick and Tartar Sauce
When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you're going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
On Organizational Leadership: The First Rule
You cannot prevent a major catastrophe, but you can build an organization that is battle-ready, that has high morale, that knows how to behave, that trusts itself, and where people trust one another. In military training, the first rule is to instill soldiers with trust in their officers, because without trust they won't fight. ~ … Continue reading On Organizational Leadership: The First Rule
Ideas vs. Innovation
In the March 2013 issue of Entrepreneur magazine, Krisztina "Z" Holly, founding executive director of the USC Stevens Center for Innovation and MIT's Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation said, "Big ideas are just that - ideas - until you execute." New ideas are a dime a dozen, Holly says, the real test is scaling your … Continue reading Ideas vs. Innovation
On Innovation: Doing What Others Say Can’t Be Done
I recently read an interesting article in Entrepreneur magazine discussing a theory of innovation by Gregory Berns, author of Iconoclast and a neuroscientist at Emory University in Atlanta. Berns argues that innovation occurs in brains that are adept at not just creative insights, but also at overriding the fears that come along with them - … Continue reading On Innovation: Doing What Others Say Can’t Be Done
Steven Lee Elder 