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

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Other Innovation Quotes :
- The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.
- Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants.
- Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore.
- There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.
- It always seems impossible until it is done.
- The only thing that makes sense to do is strive for greater collective enlightenment.
- You can’t solve a problem on the same level that it was created. You have to rise above it to the next level.
- Many things we call innovations are little more than the skillful accumulation of many little optimizations.
- The future is a direction, not a destination.
- 99 percent of success is built on failure.
- Innovation happens when you change the game; you bring a different twist to what is currently established and perceived.
- Flawless and faultless outcomes are not products of lawless and careless people. No lawless person is a genuine innovator.
- Successful innovation requires commitment, consistency, and collaboration
- A high degree of autonomy is what permits innovation, experimentation and risk taking in a bureaucracy.
- Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.
- Innovation is an idea, practice or object that is perceived as new by an individual or other unit of adoption.
- Innovation becomes possible only if people can step out of their comfort zone.
- Innovation is the change, Change Management needs to be an integral part of innovation management.
- No one who ever led a nation got there by following the path of another.
- A business shines brightest when its people are working on problems bigger than themselves