just read weird ideas that work by robert i. sutton. good round up of thinking about creativity and innovation in organisations. not a ton of substantial new stuff if you work for a creative business, you can whip through it in a night, but lots of good quotes and anecdotes.
quotes:
"to invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk" - thomas edison
"discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different" - albert szent-gyorgi
"I went to Berkley (rather than Caltech or Stanford) because it had the worst computer facilities of the three. I figured it would force me to be more ingenious" - bill joy
"creativity is a consequence of sheer productivity. if a creator wants to increase the production of hits, he or she must do it by risking a parallel increase in the production of misses...the most successful creators tend to be those with the most failures" - dean keith simonton
"the best engineers sometimes come in bodies that can't talk" nolan bushnell
"fail early, fail often" - david kelley, ideo
"every strike brings me closer to the next home run" - babe ruth
"i can't ask my customers what they want. they haven't been born yet" - an engineer from Xerox PARC
thoughts:
from weird ideas that work (page 11):
vu ja de - when you feel or act like an experience is brand new even if you've seen it a thousand times before. first used, pejorativlely, by Karl Weick about a group of smokejumpers who died in a fire because they forgot what they knew. But forgetting what you know can be very useful for creatives.
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