Quotations with inspiring insights into creativity, lateral thinking and the leadership of innovation. By Paul Sloane, author of The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills. www.destination-innovation.com Twitter @paulsloane #leadership #lateralthinking #creativity #innovation #paulsloane #quotations

1. Inspirational Thoughts
on Leadership and Innovation
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2. The main benefit of innovation
for your organization
is not competitive advantage.
It is survival.
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3. The Innovative Leader has to be
an Arsonist and a Firefighter.
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4. Be wary of success;
it is the enemy of innovation.
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5. The Clear Purpose of the Leader is
to give a Clear Purpose to the Team.
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6. Implementing best practice is
copying yesterday.
Innovation is inventing tomorrow.
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7. Tip for Leaders
Only Do
What Only You
Can Do.
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8. The Innovator’s Motto
I succeed or I learn but I never fail.
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9. The Flow of Ideas is the Lifeblood
of Innovation.
Do not be the Clot
that prevents that Flow.
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10. Fail Often and Fail Cheap
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11. Leadership and Innovation live
in the Same House.
A Leader always changes an Organization.
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12. The Wrong Answer
is the Right Answer
to a Different Question.
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13. Move Fast and
Break the Rules
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14. If you want to think what nobody else
thinks;
Ask a question that nobody else asks.
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15. When something
unexpected happens,
don’t get annoyed; get curious.
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16. Your job is to Manage Risk.
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Your Job is not
to Minimise Risk.

17. But let your team choose the route.
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Show the
Destination.

18. It is better to be a King in a
small country ……
…than a peasant in
a large one.
Paul Sloane

19. The purpose of your prototype
is not fast payback……
…. but fast feedback.
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20. The Chief Enemy of Creativity at Work is not Time.
It is Fear.
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21. The CEO’s top KPI is
Keep Prioritizing Innovation
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22. If you want more creative ideas
You must banish all of the fears
Of howls of derision
And weak indecision
And ridicule, brickbats and jeers.
Paul Sloane

23. People don’t want to know how clever your idea is.
They want to know if it solves their problem..
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24. Innovation means winners and losers.
You are either the diner or the dinner..
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25. Challenge
Assumptions
Ask, ‘What if the
Opposite were True?’
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26. Quotations by Paul Sloane
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