Jonathan Rosenberg On Rules To Foster Innovation

Jonathan Rosenberg was Google Inc. Senior Vice President. Prior to joining Google in 2002, he was a founding member of @Home's product group and served as Senior Vice President after the merger of @Home and Excite. Prior to that, he managed the eWorld product line for Apple Computer. And prior to that, he was the director of product marketing for Knight Ridder Information Services.

Jonathan Rosenberg:

Fostering innovation, 5 rules. So how do we foster this innovation? Most companies manage creativity in order to manage risk, that just doesn't work. Do we have an artist here today? Go do your art from 10 to 12 and be very creative, 12 to 4 is the management meeting. It doesn't work. Innovation comes from creativity, creativity cannot be managed, it can be allocated, it can be budgeted, it can be measured, it can be tracked and encouraged, but it can't be dictated.

Innovation rule 2. Create a culture of yes based on optimism and big thinking. Organizations developed anti-bodies to change, that's why big companies stop innovating. If you're the innovator you're like the virus, the anti-bodies wanna kill you. Many people think it's their function to do nothing but say "thou shalt not". Leaders protect people from anti-bodies, your focus should be thou shalt. Create a spirit of optimism, pessimist don't change the world.

Innovation rule 3. Never stop someone from moving forward with their good idea because you have a better one. There's a bull market for innovation, and a Darwinian process for reading out the bad ideas. You will do best by simply encouraging all of them. The best will win and the others will fail. Thomas Edison said: " Have a great idea, have a lot of them."

Innovation rule 4. A leader's job is not to prevent risks but to build the capability to recover when failures occur. There is no such thing as a good failure and a bad failure. Or there is such a thing as a good failure and a bad failure. A good one happens quickly, and it provides plenty lessons. Sometimes you have to look at these lessons in the data. A bad failure takes a long time and you don't learn anything. Leaders don't prevent failures, they prevent bad failures.

Innovation rule 5. A good crisis is a terrible thing to waste. Whenever the public endorse a crisis, ordinary citizens start to wonder how and whether our institutions really work. We no longer take things for granted. It is only then change becomes possible. Many management challenges are in fact teaching moments. The crisis is the built-in narrative, so use it.

40 Ways to Live Life Without Regrets

* 1. Realize that it's okay to make mistakes
Just make sure to learn from your past mistakes, forgive yourself and move on.

* 2. Make your Health and Wellness a top priority
and always take care of yourself so you're ready to take care of others.

* 3. Follow your own Path
not one that others want you to follow.

* 4. Find the Humor in Life
and Laugh like there is no tomorrow.

* 5. Relax and Move with the Flow
of Life by being Unafraid of Change.

* 6. Be Adventurous
by trying New Things and taking more Risks.

* 7. Have more Intellectual Curiosity
and Embrace Creativity.

* 8. Try to find Happiness
with as many different people as you can.

* 9. Think for Yourself
instead of letting other people's opinions influence you too much.

* 10. Try not to judge people
before you get to know them.

* 11. Be Thankful for what you have now
instead of think about what you don't have.

* 12. Wish Well upon everyone Equally
and try to admire with envy.

* 13. Share your Happiness with others
instead of hoarding it all for yourself.

* 14. Don't try to change someone
Love who they are now.

* 15. Enjoy the Journey,
not just the destination.

* 16. Know that Happiness is Bigger
than any bank account.

* 17. Control negative thoughts
so that they don't contribute to the outcome of your life.

* 18. Use your Energy Wisely
because spending energy complaining, worrying or being impatient is just wasted energy.

* 19. Be Bold.
Find the Courage to change things that should be changed and accept that there are some things that cannot be changed.

* 20. Love your Work
If you don't currently Love what you do, figure out what you would Love, and take the First Step toward that Life.

* 21. Turn your discontent into a mystery
and enjoy trying to solve it.

* 22. Face problems from different angles
in order to find Solutions.

* 23. Gain Independence 
by realizing that on this Earth we are all Dependent upon each other.

* 24. Change your Perspective
by taking on a Wider view of things.

* 25. Don't waste time
trying to bring disagreeable people around to liking you.

* 26. Become the person
who would like to spend the rest of your Life with.

* 27. Be Honest with yourself
and others by saying what you mean and meaning what you say.

* 28. Treat people with Respect
and Compassion.

* 29. Live in the Now
by Loving the Present and being Aware of your Thoughts and Actions.
Think Happy Thoughts and Speak Powerful Words.

* 30. Try not to put things off
until later.

* 31. Never hold grudges.

* 32. Face your fears head on
and try to do the things that you think you cannot do.

* 33. Spend time with people who make you happy
while also not depending on other people for your own Happiness.

* 34. Stand up for Yourself
and others and don't let anyone or anything hold you back.

* 35. Be Yourself
and Love who your are now.

* 36. Be a Participant in Life
rather than an observer.

* 37. Do the things that you Love to do
as much as you can.

* 38. Write out a list of Goals
and achieve them by doing them Step by Step.
Don't Give Up when things get difficult.

* 39. Do something everyday that makes you feel Proud of yourself
commit random acts of Kindness whenever you get the chance.

* 40. And always

Keep on Moving Forward.

Frank Gehry: Be Yourself

Frank Gehry is a Pritzker Prize-winning Architect based in Los Angeles, Califonia. He is also a Distinguished Professor of Architecture at Columbia University and teaches advanced design studios at the Yale School of Architecture. His best known works include the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles; Experience Music Project in Seattle; Dancing House in Prague; and 8 Spruce Street in New York City.

Frank Gehry:

I tell kids and I tell my students that they should not look over their shoulders, they should be themselves and find their own way. They will slowly realize they will become the expert in their work and nobody else is expert in their work and that they will have... and so don't matter what somebody else said. Maybe they won't like it, at least you are still in control and you're the expert in your work. And over time if it's any good it will find it's way into the bigger picture. And it may be Great and not find it's way into the bigger picture, like Van Rohe didn't when he was alive. Who's to say what's good and what's bad in the end so for once only in life. I think that's where you go. You find your own thing, you relate to it, it's your Strength, and you'll have a pretty Good Life. Don't try to look over your shoulder and try and be what the next person is, because you can't be what they are anyway. So, that's what I tell my kids, and I do that myself.

29 Ways to Stay CREATIVE!

Here are 29 Ways to keep your Brain Working  and Stay CREATIVE! I find these very Useful. Take a look at the List and start making your own!

1. Make LISTS

2. Carry a NOTEBOOK Everywhere

3. Try free WRITING

4. GET AWAY from the Computer

5. Quit Beating yourself up

6. Take BREAKS

7. SING in the Shower

8. Drink COFFEE

9. LISTEN to New MUSIC

10. Be OPEN

11. Surround yourself with CREATIVE PEOPLE

12. Get FEEDBACK

13. COLLABORATE

14. DON'T GIVE UP

15. PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE

16. ALLOW yourself to make MISTAKES

17. Go Somewhere New

18. Count Your BLESSINGS

19. Get Lots of REST

20. TAKE RISKS

21. BREAK the RULES

22. Don't Force It

23. READ a Page of the DICTIONARY

24.CREATE a FRAMEWORK

25. STOP trying to be Someone Else's Perfect

26. Got an IDEA? WRITE it Down

27. CLEAN you Workspace

28. Have FUN

29. FINISH Something

Steve Jobs on SUCCESS

Killion Rob:

I’m wondering what would be the single most valuable piece of advice you’d give us to even attempt to create some of the value that you guys have done in both your very impressive companies.


Steve Jobs:
People say you have to have a lot of Passion in what you're doing, it's totally true, and the reason is because it's so hard, and if you don't, any rational person would give up. It's really hard, and you have to do it over a sustain period of time, so if you don't love it, you don't have fun doing it, you don't really love it, you gonna give up.

That's what happened to most people actually, if you look at the ones that being successful in the eyes of society and those that didn't, oftentimes it's the ones who were successful love what they did so they can persevere, when it got really tough, and the ones that didn't love it quit, because they're sane, right? Who would want to put up with this stuff if you don't love it?

So it's a lot of hard work and it's a lot of worrying constantly, and if you don't love it, you gonna fail, so you've got to love it, you've got to have passion and I think that's the high-order bit.