Robert Noyce Quotes On Leadership And Innovation

This presentation This presentation contains some quotes from Robert Noyce, from Robert Noyce co‐inventor of the of the integrated circuit and and co‐founder of Intel of Intel.

They are highly are highly relevant for, well, a relevant for well a lot, innovation and lot innovation and leadership toto mention a few a few things… things

On his invention of On his invention of the integrated the integrated circuit:

“I don’t have any I don t have any recollection of a recollection of a ‘Boom!’ There it is! Boom! There it is!’ light bulbs going off light bulbs going off”

Noyce instead instead thought of the thought of the invention as a invention as a continuous process: continuous process:

“Let’s see, if we could do this, we can do that. If we can do that, then we can do this. It was a logical sequence. If I hit a wall, I d back up and then find a path, conceptually, all the wall I’d back up and then find a path conceptually all the way through to the end. Once you have the path, conceptually, all the way through to the end you can come back and start refining, thinking in little steps that will take you there. Once you get to the point that you can see the top of the mountain, then you know you can get there.” p , y y g

“I was trying to solve a production problem. “ l d bl I wasn’t trying to make an integrated circuit.”

On leadership:

“If you’re looking at a long‐ “If ’ l ki t l term research program, in term research program in general, the people that are doing it are in the best position to evaluate it, not iti t l t it t the people that are the people that are supervising it.”

“The people that are supervising The people that are supervising it are more dependent on their ability to judge people than they are dependent on their ability to are dependent on their ability to j g judge the work that is going on.” g g

“The job of the manager is an enabling, not a directive job… enabling not a directive job coaching, and not direction, is the first quality of leadership now. Get the barriers out of the now Get the barriers out of the way to let people do the things y p p g they do well.”

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