Albert Einstein Rule of Thumb
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough!
Short, sweet, to the point ... tips and tools for innovators and entrepreneurs!
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough!
Sage advice for
Knowledge,
Simplicity
Logic will get you from A to B ... imagination will take you everywhere!
Sage advice for
Imagination,
Logic
There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle than to initiate a new order of things ... for the reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only luke warm defenders in all those who profit by the new order ... this luke warmness arises partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they actually experience it!
I haven't failed ... I just found 1,000 ways that don't work!
[Said in reference to inventing the lightbulb]
Sage advice for
Accomplishment,
Failure,
Success
A business plan serves as an alignment tool for a new business venture.
Sage advice for
Planning
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Sage advice for
Management,
People Skills
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his/her subject and how to avoid them.
Thank you, Joe Driear!
Sage advice for
Experience,
Knowledge
Employees tend to rise to their level of their incompetence.
Sage advice for
Management,
People
A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done!
Sage advice for
Committees,
Management
Left-field ideas are those that tend to be unusual, creative, unexpected, and iconoclastic ... the term seems to derive from the area on a baseball field to the left of the hitter, but no one is quite certain as to why.
Sage advice for
Creativity,
Ideas
It's hard to take an interest in your work if you don't like it.
Sage advice for
Work
The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas ... Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.
Sage advice for
Commitment,
Future,
Passion
Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow ... Flexible and efficient markets for labor and capital, an entrepreneurial tradition, and a general willingness to tolerate and even embrace technological and economic change all contribute to this resiliency.
Every leader in charge of a P&L has to make innovation happen, even if the company lacks a culture of innovation ... I'll go further, and ask of middle managers reading this: Are you actively involved in one or more innovation-centered growth projects? If not, you should be worried, because you will be left behind or risk obsolescence.
Thank you, Dale Dauten!
Sage advice for
Innovation
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
Sage advice for
Information,
Research
It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
Sage advice for
Adversity
Success is a lousy teacher ... it seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Sage advice for
Success
Innovation has a fuzzy front end that needs entrepreneurial awareness to focus.
Sage advice for
Entrepreneur,
Innovation
The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
Sage advice for
Leadership,
Management
Before going into a partnership with someone, spend time with them in three different kinds of situations: a relaxing one, a competitive one, and an intellectually stimulating one.
Sage advice for
People,
Perspective,
Vision
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate ... the world is all gates, all opportunities!
Sage advice for
Innovation,
Invention,
Opportunity
Sage advice for
Creativity,
Design,
Focus,
Innovation,
Product Development
I want to change the world but they won't give me the source code!
Sage advice for
Change
To find your true passion ...
Sage advice for
Passion
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
Watch your thoughts; they become words ... Watch your words; they become actions ... Watch your actions; they become habits ... Watch your habits; they become character ... Watch your character; it becomes your destiny!
Sage advice for
Character
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie, I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave, and I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Sage advice for
Innovation,
Vision
Innovation is the lifeblood of organizations ... the Devil’s Advocate is toxic, encouraging idea-wreckers to see only the downside, to smother a fragile new idea in negativity.
Sage advice for
Creativity,
Innovation
In an information economy, the most valuable company assets drive themselves home every night ... if they are not treated well, they do not return the next morning.
Sage advice for
Leadership,
Management,
People
Tell me and I forget ... teach me and I remember ... involve me and I learn.