Simon Mainwaring Quotes

Almost always, great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before.

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.

When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.

We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

I use doodling for a variety of reasons: I use it to get clarity around a concept, I use it to relax, I use it to communicate ideas with others and get their refinement of them, I use it to map complex systems for companies, I use it to run innovation games for business, I use it to get insight on something puzzling me.

The employees who share innovative ideas may also be the folks who have some hidden talents that would help incorporate their suggestions.

One of the things that I've always loved to do is brainstorm ideas with friends and get together and talk about what they're building... Essentially, my day-to-day is just going around and meeting entrepreneurs and talking to them about what they plan on launching.

Anytime you put a challenge out there, people come up with a creative solution on the software side.

The best work for creative folks on the team is when the problem is big and the solution escapes everyone.

The natives of Silicon Valley learned long ago that when you share your knowledge with someone else, one plus one usually equals three. You both learn each other's ideas, and you come up with new ones.

When you have an employee who's innovative in your organization, what are they thinking about in the shower? If they're working in an exciting place, they're not thinking what they're going to do over the weekend. They're thinking: 'How do I solve that problem?'

We can't get any new thinking because we can't get any new thinkers.

The great thing about ideas is that every new idea leads to two more new ones. It’s the opposite of a gold rush, where the more people who show up in 1849 to get that gold in California, the faster the gold runs out. Ideas are not like that; ideas breed.

It's not an easy job to think creatively and then also have to think logistically.

Collaboration and augmentation are the foundational principles of innovation.

I love the creative process - brainstorming and coming up with campaigns.

If you really want to step up your team's creative thinking, take a hard look at how many people you're putting in a room together. More than three to five is probably too many.

Ideas Are The Lifeblood Of Business. Capture Every Fleeting Idea And Drive For Change.

When thinking through who to bring together to generate new ideas, it is more effective to combine specialists from very different and unrelated disciplines rather than a variety of people with different skills sets in the same field.

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!

On the simplest level, telecommuting makes it harder for people to have the kinds of informal interactions that are crucial to the way knowledge moves through an organization. The role that hallway chat plays in driving new ideas has become a cliche of business writing, but that doesn't make it less true.

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.