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 ]

Quote of the Week 26 " The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than is needed to produce it." ― Brandolini's Law (aka Bullshit Asymmetry Principle ) Triggered by the u se of the quote in Tony Fadell's recent book " Build ".

2nd Quote of the Week 25 " Creativity is a spiritual experience, not a mental experience." ―  Deepak Chopra Triggered by the interview with Deepak Chopra @ OpenText World EMEA 2022 in Munich. See  Creativity (blog-on-innovation.blogspot.com)  for a brief overview of the concept of creativity summarized by another Chopra quote: " To harness true creativity, you must silence the conditioned mind."

Quote of the Week 25 " Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion. " ―  Madonna Use of the quote  triggered by recent actions of a certain self-proclaimed "free speech advocate".

Quote of the Week 24 " You can’t copy your way to the top ." ―  Steven B. Sample ( The Contrarian’s Guide to Leadership ) Cited in Contingency Theories for Leadership . Source:  DALL·E mini - a Hugging Face Space by dalle-mini More counter-intuitive lessons from the book : Never make a decision today that can reasonably be put off to tomorrow. Think gray. Don’t form opinions if you don’t have to. Think free. Move several steps beyond traditional brainstorming. Listen first, talk later. And when you listen, do so artfully. Shoot your own horse. Don’t force others to do your dirty work. The best leaders don’t keep up with the popular media and the trades. Know what hill you are willing to die on—and keep its exact location to yourself. Know the all–important difference between being leader and doing leader. You can’t copy your way to the top.

Quote of the Week 23 " To catch up, you have to run faster than the leader. " ―  Mark Akers Full quote taken from the book Indiana (in) Decision  by Mark Aker: " If you are running in a race and are behind the leader,  to catch up, you have to run faster than the leader ." Triggered by Gunter Dueck 's variant of the quote in German: "Wenn man zur Spitze aufschliessen will, muss man schneller laufen als der Erste."

Quote of the Week 22 " It is a lot better to walk alone than with a crowd going in the wrong direction ." ―  A @ProfFeynman tweet Source: Tweet