One doesn’t have to be a Marxist to be awed by the scale and success of early-20th-cent ury efforts to transform strong-willed human beings into docile employees.
A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.
We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.
Innovation is the fuel for growth. When a company runs out of innovation, it runs out of growth.
From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top.
In an increasingly non-linear economy, incremental change is not enough-you have to build a capacity for strategy innovation, one that increases your ability to recognize new opportunities.
You can’t use an old map to see a new land.
The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if ‘do unto others’ really was a rule.
Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who’s forging a bullet with your company’s name on it. You’ve got one option now – to shoot first. You’ve got to out innovate the innovators.
Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been optional in the past, but its pretty much the whole game today.