Top 67 Innovation Leadership Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Innovation Leadership

#1. An entrepreneur is a leader of excellence, trailblazer and pioneer who constantly brings change to their generation.

Onyi Anyado

#2. A High Performance team requires people with High Performance Mindsets, with relevant competence, committed and balanced communication, to a meaningful and challenging goal.

Tony Dovale

#3. The reason most of your staff are asleep and disengaged, is because you have boring, and bully managers, and no REAL Leaders to inspire and unleash potential.

Tony Dovale

#4. The right mindset is the most powerful force we can use to positively change the world.

Tony Dovale

#5. The smart strategist allows strategy to be shaped by events. Good reactions can make great strategy. Strategy involves competition of goals, and the risk is the difference between those goals and the ability of the organization to achieve them. So part of the risk is created by the strategy.

Max McKeown

#6. To go from Bitter to BETTER, means you need to turn your I onto an E, by embracing WE.

Tony Dovale

#7. Disruptive innovation is entrepreneurs changing their industry with unique creativity.

Onyi Anyado

#8. Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Steve Jobs

#9. REAL success, satisfaction and joy has nothing to do with owning STUFF!

Tony Dovale

#10. An Appreciative inquiry Conversation is the catalyst for strengths based innovation.

Tony Dovale

#11. It is common understanding that communication is at the heart of any organisation. So, why have organisational models not evolved accordingly? To truly leverage the potential of this information age, we need to rethink and redesign organisations

Miguel Reynolds Brandao

#12. Innovation happens when people are given the freedom to ask questions and the resources and power to find the answers.

Richard Branson

#13. In order to master the ability to lead, develop and deliver innovation at speed systematically, you must challenge your assumptions and expectations that influence your actions.

K. Melissa Kennedy

#14. It is what the "I" stands for - Information, Innovation, Insight, Improvement, or Influence, that needs to be represented by CIOs in the Boardroom.

Pearl Zhu

#15. I think there is probably no better person to aspire to emulate than Steve Jobs and what he has done at Apple in terms of his leadership, his innovation, not settling for mediocrity.

Howard Schultz

#16. Authentic leadership is at the root of cultures of great innovation, engagement, outstanding client experiences, and growth.

Henna Inam

#17. From want of foresight men make changes which relishing well at first do not betray their hidden venom, as I have already observed respecting hectic fever. Nevertheless, the ruler is not truly wise who cannot discern evils before they develop themselves, and this is a faculty given to few.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#18. Creative leadership can be described as "adaptability meets agility," and "innovation meets principles.

Pearl Zhu

#19. I believe that he will prosper most whose mode of acting best adapts itself to the character of the times; and conversely that he will be unprosperous, with whose mode of acting the times do not accord.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#20. Nobody thought the direct business model would work. But work it did, and spectacularly. Until it didn't. And therein lies the tale.

Heather Simmons

#21. Limitless Leadership is the secret ingredient that helps common people, create high performance teams, that achieve outstanding and uncommon results.

Tony Dovale

#22. Every organisation, not just business, needs 1 core competence: Tactical execution

Tony Dovale

#23. Every book you've ever read on LEADERSHIP will finally make sense (and become practical) if you change the word "leader" to INFLUENCER.

Richie Norton

#24. When we aren't curious in conversations we judge, tell, blame and even shame, often without even knowing it, which leads to conflict."
-The Power Of Curiosity: How To Have Real Conversations That Create Collaboration, Innovation and Understanding

Kirsten Siggins

#25. Creativity is the new currency, so, are you credited with new thoughts or overdrawn in old thinking?

Onyi Anyado

#26. All lives have equal value. And so you say, 'why do poor children die when other children don't? Why do some people have enough nutrition or reasonable toilets and other people don't?' So those basic needs that, through innovation, actually it's very affordable to bring them ... to everyone.

Bill Gates

#27. With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just for today but for tomorrow.

Max McKeown

#28. The future is a direction, not a destination.

Edwin Catmull

#29. The Congressional Budget Office is a reactionary socialist institution which does not believe in economic growth, does not believe in innovation, and does not believe in data that it has not internally generated.

Newt Gingrich

#30. In the path of compassion our patience, resilience and endurance are often challenged. Sometimes we may fail but we have to stand up again because ultimate joy of compassion is immeasurable for us and the whole world.

Amit Ray

#31. Innovative thinkers are explorers and synthesizers of new world views or future views of the world.

Pearl Zhu

#32. Culture is the constant constraint that controls creativity, commitment, collaboration, and cohesion.

Tony Dovale

#33. High Performance Teams create cultures of caring, connection, commitment, collaboration and clear consistent communication

Tony Dovale

#34. Outlier" CIOs have better capabilities to connect innovation dots.

Pearl Zhu

#35. Impossible is a perception based upon a limiting mental illusion. Possible is the belief in the potential of unseen possibility,

Tony Dovale

#36. A Culture of clear consistent communication and connection is the foundation of a high performance team that thrives and flourishes.

Tony Dovale

#37. Most people are interested in success, but not COMMITTED to success, which is why 85%+ of people seldom achieve their desired level of success.

Tony Dovale

#38. A $10,000 investment in Dell at its 1988 initial public offering would have yielded a fortune of ~$6 million at the stock's peak.

Heather Simmons

#39. Culture is the sum of the values, beliefs and assumptions of human groups.

Max McKeown

#40. [That] speaks to one of the most important roles of a leader; to boil down an organization's many priorities into a simple plan, so that employees can remember it, internalize it, and act on it.

Adam Bryant

#41. Innovative leadership is essentially anchored on the leader's overall multifaceted resourcefulness and multidimensional competencies.

Pearl Zhu

#42. Leaderships about transforming lives and making a difference through innovation and purpose, grounded in values and integrity

Michael Harris

#43. Appreciation and recognition are qualities that most leaders forget, but desperately need, to build a positive, passionate and engaged workplace.

Tony Dovale

#44. It is never an idea, technology, market forces, or access to capital that makes a company innovative. What differentiates an innovative company from an average company is the people working inside the company.

Jag Randhawa

#45. It's through diverse opinions and perspectives that a dynamic organisation can drive innovation and create its competitive advantage.

Craig Dent

#46. Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.

Ronald A. Heifetz

#47. Bigwig: "I can't think why he didn't convince Threarah."
Hazel: "Because Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself.

Richard Adams

#48. To ENSURE greater success, celebrate your progess daily.

Tony Dovale

#49. Improvement is about doing something better; innovation is about doing something new.

Andy Hargreaves

#50. Rethink change: Make change management irrelevant through Appreciative Leadership Innovation focused Expectations (ALIFE)

Tony Dovale

#51. If you continue doing what you have done in the past, you will get what you have received in the past.

Avinash Narula

#52. Successful leaders know how to line up support for their initiatives and create the right environment for change and innovation.

Bonnie Marcus

#53. Courage is the belief in self, and the possible ability to prevail in the face of adversity.

Tony Dovale

#54. Innovation can start with wanting what does not yet exist - and finding a solution - or seeing what does not yet exist - and finding an opportunity.

Max McKeown

#55. Your UNconscious mind has more power, influence and control over your thoughts, feelings, decisions, and choices, than your conscious mind.

Tony Dovale

#56. Managers maintain the present while leaders create the future.

Orrin Woodward

#57. A leader is someone who creates better ways of doing things and better ways are new and comfortable ways.

Israelmore Ayivor

#58. Those who disrupt their industries change consumer behavior, alter economics, and transform lives.

Heather Simmons

#59. Compassion needs new approach and new outlook with the way you see the world.

Amit Ray

#60. REAL Leadership is the building of belief, that activates and aligns the full potential, for a meaningful cause

Tony Dovale

#61. Hope is the spotlight that shines on the mine fields of possibility

Tony Dovale

#62. Knowing that an asteroid is going to hit the earth is not really useful if you are not planning to launch missiles to knock it out of the sky. You have to work massively overtime on the belief that innovation or massive change is going to happen.' - Tom Martin, former VP of marketing

Heather Simmons