Book Titles

…in many creative fields the person who pursues an advanced degree has consciously chosen a path to a professorship, not to a life of innovating in that domain.

…it makes perfect sense that… those with the most years of formal schooling would be less eminent as innovators.

…innovators aren’t burdened by knowledge; they’re nourished by it.

…notable innovations in business… do not arise from nothingness; they are not even remotely unprecedented.

Innovation doesn’t reject the past; on the contrary, it relies heavily on the past and comes most readily to those who’ve mastered the domain as it exists.

…all adaptations and extensions of what exists, [are] made possible by great insights but entirely impossible without a deep knowledge of, and reliance on, past achievements.

…creative achievement is attained in the same way as other kinds of achievement.

…innovators become great in the same way that everybody else does.

One of the main reasons why the people in organizations don’t produce more innovation is that the culture isn’t friendly to it. New ideas aren’t really welcomed.

…the most effective steps an organization can take to build innovation will include helping people expand and deepen their knowledge of their field.