Quotes

Management, Page 399

The unexpected failure may be an equally important source of innovation opportunities.

Management, Page 400

Innovations that exploit changes in market structure are particularly effective if one very large manufacturer or supplier dominates the industry and its markets during a period of rapid growth.

Influence, Page 401

Because of a unique collection of detectible regularities (rhythm, meter, intensity, pulse, and time), music possesses rare coordinating power.

Thinking, Fast and Slow, Page 402

…one recipe for a dissatisfied adulthood is setting goals that are especially difficult to attain.

Thinking, Fast and Slow, Page 402

Any aspect of life to which attention is directed will loom large in a global evaluation.

Thinking, Fast and Slow, Page 402

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.

Management, Page 402

Innovation can never be risk free. But if innovation is based on exploiting what has already happened… it is far less risky than not to innovate by exploiting these opportunities.

Management, Page 402

Innovation is not ‘flash of genius.’ It is hard work. And this work should be organized as a regular part of every unit within the enterprise, and of every level of management.

Management, Page 402

…one cannot market research the truly new. Also nothing new is right the first time. Invariably, problems crop up that nobody even thought of.

Management, Page 403

Neither studies nor market research nor compute remodeling are a substitute for the test of reality. Everything improved or new needs, therefore, first to be tested on a small scale, that is, it needs to be piloted.