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Sunday, December 30, 2007

What are you reading?

Just completed Innovate like Edison by Gelb and Caldicott. This is a thorough and well-written discussion of what makes a great innovator using-of course-the inspiring example of Edison ('America's Greatest Inventor'). Worth reading? Definitely, both for your own and your organisation's regular re-invention.

Here are a few samples:

"the willingness to support new ideas intellectually must be supported by the courage to champion them into reality"
"link passionate goal-directedness with perseverence through self-control"
"constant innovation is the way to defeat the competition"
"last year the world produced more computer chips than grains of rice"