Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated.

Typically [professors] live in their heads. … They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads. It’s a way of getting their head to meetings.

I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.

My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.

Finding your element is essential to your wellbeing and ultimate success and, by implication to the health of our organisations and the effectiveness of our educational systems

To realize our true creative potential - in our organizations, in our schools and in our communities - we need to think differently about ourselves and towards each other. We must learn to be creative.

Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few.