My Favorite Notes on Innovation.

• Innovation has many similiar words and ideas such as: create, entrepreneur, ideas, vision, dream, and imagination.
• Do not stop dreaming. Dreaming is healthy.
• Keep creative people around you.
• The first innovator is God. It may not occur to us how creative and innovative God is. He created the universe out of nothing. In Genesis 1:1 it says: "In the beginning God created...". So if we follow God we will be creative and innovative. Create new dreams and visions.
• Isaiah 43:19 "Behold, I will do a new thing, Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it?.."
• Genesis 32:11 Then the angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am!’ 12 And he said, ‘Lift up your eyes and see,
• Jeff Bezos - Amazon - Invention is in our DNA.
• Steve Jobs and Apple Computer.
      “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
      To be daily challenged with innovation.
• Jack Welch - get ideas from anyone.
• From Google we can learn:
      Establish a creative environment.
      Be an outlet for ideas.
      Recognize ideas can come from anywhere.
• Happy people are more likely to be creative.
• The business enterprise has two..basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs”. -- Peter F. Drucker
Originality is the best marketing and advertizing.
• Ignore the competition, and create something new.
• Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination." -Mark Twain ... The point is communicate the vision even if not yet well worded.
• Use your creativity to come up with a good mix. (Trump)
• Creative people rarely need to be motivated–they have their own inner drive that refuses to be bored. They refuse to be complacent. They live on the edge, which is precisely what is needed to be successful and remain successful. - Donald Trump
• What could we do that seems impossible,
• Look for beauty in Life - Drew Haninger - Ecclesiast. 3:11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts...
• God is creative, so we should be creative also - Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created... be an imitator of God