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Civic imagination and innovation and creativity are emerging from local ecosystems now and radiating outward, and this great innovation, this great wave of localism that's now arriving, and you see it in how people eat and work and share and buy and move and live their everyday lives, this isn't some precious parochialism, this isn't some retreat into insularity, no. This is emergent. The localism of our time is networked powerfully. And so, for instance, consider the ways that strategies for making cities more bike-friendly have spread so rapidly from Copenhagen to New York to Austin to Boston to Seattle. Think about how experiments in participatory budgeting, where everyday citizens get a chance to allocate and decide upon the allocation of city funds. Those experiments have spread from Porto Alegre, Brazil to here in New York City, to the wards of Chicago. Migrant workers from Rome to Los Angeles and many cities between are now organizing to stage strikes to remind the people who live in their cities what a day without immigrants would look like. In China, all across that country, members of the New Citizens' Movement are beginning to activate and organize to fight official corruption and graft, and they're drawing the ire of officials there, but they're also drawing the attention of anti-corruption activists all around the world. In Seattle, where I'm from, we've become part of a great global array of cities that are now working together bypassing government altogether, national government altogether, in order to try to meet the carbon reduction goals of the Kyoto Protocol. All of these citizens, united, are forming a web, a great archipelago of power that allows us to bypass brokenness and monopolies of control.

Coal mines, like a hard life, have seen the best diamonds of innovation, more than any jewel factory.

Commitment is a function of capabilities and intentions. (Commitment = Capabilities X Intentions)

College does not equal job security. Entrepreneurship does not equal job security. For heaven's sake, "job security" does not equal job security. So what do you do? Don't be a one-trick pony. Add real value in everything you do. But most of all, study and apply business models. No matter what discipline you come from. Learn how to add value so that value can flow in the form of money to you. That, my friends, is job security. Learn where money comes from and you'll know where to turn when life throws a curve.

Compassion does not need any special preparation, place or time. You can start it anywhere and anytime. Try it at home, work, school —or anywhere! The more you cultivate compassion the more will be your fulfillment, resilience, patience, grit, endurance and equanimity.

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

Compassion makes you strong, caring and creative. It creates a different attitude, a level of maturity and understanding, where you do something which makes you stand out of crowd.

Competition to catalyze digital innovation is great. Competition to further the world of pursuing superego is unhealthy.

Competition means no profit for everybody , no meaningful differentiation, and a struggle for survival so why do people believe that competition is healthy ? ....... ....The more we compete the less we gain .

Computers can not dream, they can not visualize – That is your part and that’s how you create, innovate and make difference.

[Concerning postmodernism:] The aim of this experimental history is to disturb the ontological security of modern identity and hence to provoke the possibility of otherness through exposition of the cultural difference concealed by, and within, the order of modern rationalism.

Collaboration is key, it takes innovation and creativity to the next room.

Contrary finding: The best leaders we studied did not have a visionary ability to predict the future. They observed what worked, figured out why it worked, and built upon proven foundations. They were not more risk taking, more bold, more visionary, and more creative than the comparisons. They were more disciplined, more empirical, and more paranoid. ………. Entrenched myth: A threat filled world favors the speedy; you’re either the quick or the dead. Contrary finding: The idea that leading in a “fast world” always requires “fast decisions” and “fast action”—and that we should embrace an overall ethos of “Fast! Fast! Fast!”—is a good way to get killed. 10X leaders figure out when to go fast, and when not to. Entrenched myth: Radical change on the outside requires radical change on the inside. Contrary finding: The 10X cases changed less in reaction to their changing world than the comparison cases. Just because your environment is rocked by dramatic change does not mean that you should inflict radical change upon yourself.

Cookie cutters are for baking, not branding.

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

…contraceptives are the greatest life-saving, poverty-ending, women-empowering innovation ever created.

Create the job, we wish to have.

Create lightning bolt ideas during brainstorms by causing disturbances in your atmosphere.

Creating something from nothing is ingenious. Creating something from something is smart. To rule your world, be ingeniously smart.

Consumers today have become a cynical mob of buyers who believe the reviews and ratings of complete strangers much more readily than your brand's promises and distinctions.

Courage loves the idea of infinity.

Creating a better future Requires creativity in the present.

Creative minds excel in the field of imagination.

Creatives Creed: Destruction is creation. Creation is destruction.

Creative tension is important to switch on the “innovative mode” of the business environment.

Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.

Creativity is admired only if it solves the problem.

Creativity isn't meant to introduce complexity it is expected to add simplicity.

Creativity is just an attraction to the second rate minds but simplification to the first rate minds.

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

Creativity is the potential which can be unlocked and innovation is the serendipity which can be unpuzzled.

Creativity is the DNA of innovation, the virus of evolution, the antidote to automation

Creativity is the product of your imagination.

Creativity means bringing simplicity to the existing.

Creative minds doesn't get tired.

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

Curiosity is crucial for innovation. We are all born curious, but only a small number of people remain curious for a lifetime.

Customers often know more about your products than you do. Use them as a source of inspiration and ideas for product development.

Customers have a first moment when they discover your brand. If you were to look at it today with a fresh pair of eyes, in fact only through a pair of fresh customer eyes and witness your brand for the very first time, what would you see? What impression would make? Or fail to make? Would your brand blend in? Would it stand out? Would it be memorable, or the leading cause of amnesia amongst shoppers everywhere? Facing the truth of this and fixing it as needed will determine whether your brand thrives or merely stumbles along.

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

Daring never goes out of style.

Daring plays the game to its edge.

Data has no ego and makes an excellent co-pilot.

Creative thinking is the spice of great innovations.

Creativity has often been analogized as “Thinking outside of the box.

Creativity is the ability to create novel value, and innovation is how to transform ideas and achieve their business value.

Data may disappoint, but it never lies.

Data levels all arguments.

Data Scientists should recall innovation often times is not providing fancy algorithms, but rather value to the customer.

Develop your own skills and styles. In music, designing, electronics, etc., you may have a peculiar way of exposing your dreams in an uncommon way