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Most innovation is the result of discovery-driven learning.  Linda Hill

Embrace Change.  Kent Beck

Always be in beta.  Reid Hoffman

Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for everything important in her life.  Brian Andrews

Better an imperfect solution now than a perfect solution sometime who knows in the future.  Either Dale or some famous Lean consultant I can't remember

There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that shoud not be done at all.   Peter Drucker

Don't confuse tinkering with a genuine effort.  Influencers, page 292

The conventional notion of what makes a great leader is inconsistent with what you need to do if you want to build an organization that can truly innovate.  Linda Hill

The Internet, the mother of all flows, is actually an open sewer of untreated, unfiltered information, and if my employees, my students, and my kids don't have filters built into them to be able to get the best out of the flows and filter the worst, then we are going to have a real problem.   Tom Friedman, in a Deloitte interview

When you have an employee, say, "This is great, let's pursue it, bring some evidence and let's set a time next week."   Comment about managing

If we fixed this, what would be "right" percentage of exceptional?  Comment about performance planning. 

Great management questions:  What do you really want your employees to do?  How well are they doing?  What can help them improve?  How can I reward this?  
Great employee questions:  What exactly do you want me to be doing?  How well am I doing?  What can I do to improve?  What rewards do I get? 

We need to beat Father Time, but Father Time is undefeated.  Erik Qualman