"... The rise of Internet of Things, Big Data, and 3D printing is challenging everything we already know.
It’s also accelerating the rate of change and of innovation.
To navigate this future, our thinking has to become as rich and varied as the world around us; a world that demands that each of us is thinking like a futurist."
"The answers to our questions are everywhere; we just need to change the lens with which we see the world."
‘Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.’
‘If you’re going through hell, keep going.’
‘A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.’
‘Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.’
‘It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.’
‘Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.’
‘Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.’
‘Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.’
‘Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.’
‘Never, never, never give up.’
"It is no good getting furious if you get stuck.
What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else.
Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward.
In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years."
"If you want to reach your goals and dreams, you cannot do it without discipline."
"The key to staying organized is to have a calendar and write down everything you need to do,...
Begin each day with the most unpleasant tasks, and cross off tasks as you complete them,...
No activity is too insignificant to merit being written down,..."
"... Change in the way we learn, change in the way we work, change in the way we play, change in the way we live.
Our ability to quickly adjust/adapt to such changes will determine whether we merely survive or we prosper... "
"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."
~ Anthony Robbins;
"... before the decade is out of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely..."
"I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail.
There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that's a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."
"Just because something worked before, doesn’t mean it will continue to be relevant."
"If you can't think because you can't chew; try a banana!"
"... People always ask me, “What’s the secret to being a successful CEO?”
Sadly, there is no secret, but if there is one skill that stands out, it’s the ability to focus and make the best move when there are no good moves... "
"There’s always a gap between “what I have now” and “what I would like.”
The gap is all of your excuses.
All it takes to close the gap is to be creative and work your way through the excuses.
I repeat: this is ALL IT TAKES."
“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration.
Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work.
If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work.
All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.
Things occur to you. If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens.
But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction.
Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive.
You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that's almost never the case.”
"In innovation, as in any other endeavor, there is talent, there is ingenuity, and there is knowledge.
But when all is said and done, what innovation require is hard, focused, purposeful work.
If diligence, persistence, and commitment are lacking, talent, ingenuity, and knowledge are of no avail."
"Innovation almost never fails due to a lack of creativity.
It's almost always because of a lack of discipline."
"Anyone can steer the ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course."
“We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.”
"CEOs who focus their attention on future events and external activities lead their firms to early adoption and invention of new technologies and greater and faster development of innovations.
In contrast, firms whose CEOs focus on internal operations are slower to detect, adopt and implement new technologies.
Words, not just actions, of the CEO set the tone to inspire, propel and motivate employee innovation."
"Just like Christopher Columbus or Marco Polo, I believe each of us came to this planet hardwired to explore, to push out, to grow and to evolve -- to discover new parts of ourselves and our world we have not seen before...
... Sometimes the greatest discoveries are made by exploring inner space, in the cracks and crevices of our belief system, which has everything to do with how we perceive ourselves and our world.
In other words, new discovery is also an inside job that invites us to see our lives and our world, right where we are, from a new perspective...
... As Thoreau wrote, "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
Given this perspective, what you see when you look at your life and your world truly is a work of art.
You really don't have to go all that far on your voyage of discovery to find something new.
You just need to have new eyes.... "
"... People always ask me, “What’s the secret to being a successful CEO?”
Sadly, there is no secret, but if there is one skill that stands out, it’s the ability to focus and make the best move when there are no good moves... "
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"The future just flip-flopped on you. Again.
But change isn't the greatest danger.
Inertia is."
• If it isn’t broken, don’t fix it.
• If it works, go with the flow.
• If it isn’t working, do something different.
• The solution to an issue—any issue—is almost never that closely related to the problem.
• This explains why the way people think and talk about problems is almost guaranteed to be different than the way they think and talk about solutions.
• The first place to look for solutions is to exceptions: ask yourself what has been working that you really hadn’t noticed all that much.
• The next best place to look for solutions is to what makes sense, now that you’ve thought a little more about it.
• What usually matters most are small, right, smart, good (that is, moral) next steps that may put you on the path to big changes.
• People need to be reminded (and none of us ever wants to forget) that the future is both created and negotiable.
• Not all change is a problem, and problems do not happen all the time. But change is inevitable.[Excerpted from LEAP!Psych weblog of Dudley Lynch, President of Brain Technologies Corporation and author of 'LEAP!: How to Think Like a Dolphin & Do the Next Right, Smart Thing Come Hell or High Water', among others. He is one of my most favourite strategist authors.]
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