Roger von Oech Quotes

Moving with the times is an important idea for strategy today.

Life is like the monkey bars: you have to let go to move forward. Once you make the decision to leap into entrepreneurship, be sure to loosen your grasp on old concepts so you can swing your way to new ones.

I think if you ignore the generation after yours, you will be obsolete very quickly.

I am very much a person who likes to change with the times. Education is what it is all about.

The new idea either finds a champion or it dies. No ordinary involvement with a new idea provides the energy required to cope with the indifference and resistance that change provokes.

Progress and growth are impossible if you always do things the way you've always done things.

Any time there is a new idea, it can take some time for policy to catch up to it.

It's all about evolution and for us, we try to think outside the box and not try to duplicate what we've done in the past.

It's important to stay current and fresh.

I am quick to adopt new ideas. If there is something good, I will follow it and implement it. I adopted information technology in 1985.

As people in business know, if you just sit on your hands and don't progress with the changing environment, you won't reform and improve the existing relationships you have.

Carry a big basket. In other words, be open to new ideas, different partners, and new practices, and have a willingness to dump out the old and irrelevant to make room for new approaches.

It's amazing to see how if we don't open our minds to something different, we wont evolve as a species.

I'm old enough to know you can't close your mind to new ideas. You have to test out every possibility if you want something new.

We have to open our minds and be ready for the changes.

Those who will not face improvements because they are changes, will face changes that are not improvements.

We do not make changes for the sake of making them, but we never fail to make a change when once it is demonstrated that the new way is better than the old way.

All innovation is about letting go, saying goodbye to things to create space for the new.

Sometimes you have to get rid of something that's good, and tinker with something that's better.

Any company that cannot imagine the future won't be around to enjoy it.

Don't let tradition paralyze your mind. Be receptive to new ideas. Be experimental. Try new approaches. Be progressive in everything you do.

Transparency is all about letting in and embracing new ideas, new technology and new approaches. No individual, entity or agency, no matter how smart, how old, or how experienced, can afford to stop learning.

An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones, and live with paradox will be the effective leader's premier trait.

You must be on top of change or change will be on top of you.

You can't just keep doing what works one time, everything around you is changing. To succeed, stay out in front of change.