7. “ The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.” — Dee Hock
8. “ It is generally much easier to kill an organization than change it substantially.” — Kevin Kelly, Out of Control
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10. No Wiggle Room! “Incrementalism is innovation’s worst enemy.” — Nicholas Negroponte
11. “ I don’t intend to be known as the ‘King of the Tinkerers.’ ” — CEO, F500 financial services company (5-99)
12. “ ALL OF THESE ‘CONVERSATIONS’ TODAY ABOUT ‘THE WEB’ WILL APPEAR SO BLOODY DAMN SILLY AND PEDESTRIAN TEN … FIVE? … THREE? … YEARS FROM NOW.” — Tom Peters (11-99) P.S.: Read Ray Kurzweil’s The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
20. “ Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.” — Phil Daniels, exec, Sydney
21. “ You really got to me. So many of our information technology projects take on a life of their own, and I know they’ll never end up as more than ‘mediocre successes.’ ” — CEO, F100 financial services company (10-98)
22. Epitaph from Hell … Joe T. Jones 1942 - 1999 I WOULDA DONE SOME … REALLY COOL STUFF … BUT … MY BOSS WOULDN’T LET ME!
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25. “ If there is nothing very special about your work, no matter how hard you apply yourself, you won’t get noticed and that increasingly means you won’t get paid much, either.” — Michael Goldhaber, Wired
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32. Alan Kay on PARC’s Bob Taylor “He was a connoisseur of talent.”
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42. “ Firms will not ‘manage the careers’ of their employees. They will provide opportunities to enable the employee to develop identity and adaptability and thus be in charge of his or her own career.” - Tim Hall et al., “The New Protean Career Contract”
43. Yes! Director of Bringing in the Really Cool People
