Organizations are not designed for innovation. Quite the contrary, they are designed for ongoing operations. - Vijay Govindarajan

The innovation leader’s job is to execute a disciplined experiment.

Of all possible resources that a firm might possess, its knowledge base has perhaps the greatest ability to serve as a source of sustainable differentiation and hence competitive advantage.

The more you hardwire a company on total quality management, [the more] it is going to hurt breakthrough innovation... The mindset that is needed, the capabilities that are needed, the metrics that are needed, the whole culture that is needed for discontinuous innovation, are fundamentally different.