The Concept of Innovation in Concrete Terms!

What follows is a 346 word consultant’s report to a client that converts the concept of innovation into concrete terms that can be applied to daily operations. If this client chooses to implement this commitment to the new - INNOVATION WILL HAVE OCCURRED. If they don’t, next year efforts will deliver the same results as always. Doesn’t that sound insane? Mr. Einstein - you’re a genius!

As you move from the challenges of 2009 to the opportunities that are in every New Year - start by reading today's Dale Dauten column in the Advocate - Companies have as much innovation as leader demands. From the article are the two sentences that might change your future, "Only when someone grabs hold of innovation and puts it at the top of the list does it happen." and "So how much innovation will you have next year?" Below is wisdom of the ages:

"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." Peter Drucker (1909 - 2006)

"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."
Arthur Schopenhauer

"Quality in a product or service is not what the producer puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives that value. Nothing else constitutes quality."

"The only sound way to price is to start out with what the market is
willing to pay." Peter Drucker

"Quite simply, culture is created by what is tolerated."

".your current processes are perfectly designed to get the results they are already getting." Davis Balestracci - Quality Digest Magazine as reported by Dale Dauten (Advocate November 15, 2009)

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. Einstein

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Einstein

“With leadership anything is possible!” (MGM)

"I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth."
John F. Kennedy (5 / 25 / 61)

Happy New Year!

Copyright - Michael G. Manes (December 27, 2009)