Quote Of The Week

Quote of the Week 30 " Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought. " ―  Albert Szent-Györgyi Triggered by a @ProfFeynman tweet .

Quote of the Week 29 "I’m not young enough to know everything." ― James Matthew Barrie (sometimes attributed to Oscar Wilde) Triggered by a reply to a @wilddueck  tweet .

Quote of the Week 28 " Proximity does breed creativity within a group of people." ― Kara Swisher Triggered by Kara's claim in a recent Pivot Podcast episode: . @karaswisher explains that there are some real advantages to working in-person in the office: “Proximity does breed creativity within a group of people.” Stream Pivot here, presented by @Salesforce + 👉 https://t.co/wo1l2mMrMP pic.twitter.com/coSLj8xTsS — Pivot Podcast (@PivotPod) June 3, 2022 Unfortunately, I could not yet find a research study that fully backs this opinion. While the creativity myth   "Creativity tends to be a solitary activity" has been challenged, " face-to-face verbal interaction is typically not an effective way to tap the creative potential of a group "   according to  Alone versus together: Finding the right balance for creativity (researchgate.net) . [Update: July 17, 2022 Proximity does indeed cause contagion within a group of people. ]

Quote of the Week 27 " By far the greatest flow of newness is not innovation at all. Rather, it is  imitation ." ― Theodore Levitt "Imitation is not only more abundant than innovation, but actually a much more prevalent road to business growth and profits." Triggered by the inflationary u se of the term "innovation" in marketing new products. Theodore Levitt already diagnosed the same more than half a decade ago in his 1966 Harvard Business Review article "Innovative Imitation" summarized here . [ Post | LinkedIn ]