When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in my thought or test it in my shop. I even note if it is out of balance.
The idea should come first, the startup should come second.
What interests me about thoughts is not the moment when it crystallises into formal ideas but its earlier stages.
I do a lot of mental work before I ever start writing.
Basically I'm in the idea business -- whether it's a musical idea or a spoken idea ... If you wind up with a political system that wants to put idea men out of business, then you have worry on your hands.
Research: the distance between an idea and its realization.
I've seen it again and again in my consulting: Most teams are too large to be innovative, despite their leaders' best intentions.
Even in large corporations, smaller ideas may not get enough resources.
I'm basically the idea person. I'm not physically involved in the production. I don't have the necessary abilities, so I go to the top people.
I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. I do much more for people than just paint them pictures.
Ideas too are a life and a world.
Innovation comes from, one, acknowledging yourself; two, studying and understanding the problem; and three, finding a solution.
The human mind is like a fertile ground were seed are continually being planted. The seeds are opinions, ideas, and concepts. You plant a seed, a thought grows, and it grows. The word is like a seed and the human mind is so fertile!
It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.
The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.
All too often, a corporate innovation initiative starts and ends with a board meeting mandate to the CEO followed by a series of memos to the staff, with lots of posters and one-day workshops. This typically creates 'innovation theater' but very little innovation.
