“Innovation equals Creativity times Risk taking” Jacqueline L. Byrd.

Four common stop signs for Innovation:
1. Always be informed.
2. Always, be a team player.
3. Go through channels.
4. Produce-get results.

Five keys to Innovation:
1. Look for the innovators.
2. Be aware of the messages that get in your way.
3. Empower people around you.
4. Put together teams that make it happen.
5. Talk innovation often.

“7 essentials of exponential revenue growth” – David G Thomson

# 1. Create and sustain a breakthrough value proposition.
# 2. Exploit a high-growth market segment.
# 3. Shape a revenue powerhouse with marquee customers.
# 4. Secure Big Brother alliances for breaking into new markets.
# 5. Become the masters of exponential returns.
# 6. Practice inside-outside leadership.
# 7. The board should be comprised of essentials experts.

Jon M Huntsman in "Winners never Cheat"

Life to me is the greatest of all games.
The danger lies in treating it as a trivial game, a game to be taken lightly, and a game in which the rules doesn't matter much. The rules matter a great deal. The game has to be played fairly or it is no game at all. And to, even to win the game is not the chief end. The chief end is to win it honorably and splendidly.
Forget about who finishes first and who finishes last. Decent, Honorable people finish races and their lives in grand style and with respect.

Drucker on “Pursuing Perfection”

The greatest sculptor of ancient Greece, Phidias, around 440 BC made the statues that to this day, 2,400 years later, still stand on the roof of the Parthenon in Athens. When Phidias submitted his bill, the city accountant of Athens refused to pay it. “These statues stand on the roof of the temple, and on the highest hill in Athens, No one will ever see the backs. Yet, you have charged us for sculpturing them in the round, that is, for doing their backs as beautiful as the front? ”.
“Ah, but the gods can see them”, replied the sculptor.
Drucker tells this story of a Greek sculptor, to stress the importance of pursuing perfection in every one’s work.

Charles Handy on ‘Learning’

When I was flipping through the "Age of Unreason" by Charles Handy, I found a piece on 'Learning' very interesting, He says - the theory of learning can be explained in the form of a wheel.
The wheel starts with a set of questions, duly answered, tested and reflected upon, leads on to another.
Learning is, not just knowing the answers, not the same as study, nor the same as training. It is bigger than both. It is a cast of mind, a habit of life, a way of thinking about things, a way of growing.
Learning is not finding out what other people already know, but is solving our own problems for our own purposes, By questioning, thinking and testing until the solution is a new part of our life.