Pure Genius Quotes

“bastions of boredom, killers of creativity, and way too comfortable with compliance and conformity.”
― Don Wettrick, Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level

“Pure Genius Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level     Don Wettrick”
― Don Wettrick, Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level

“Put simply, it is easier and less stressful to be told what to do, rather than be given freedom to come up with what you want to learn.”
― Don Wettrick, Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level

“When you lead with rules and regulations on the first day, you set a culture of limitations. Even if it isn’t your intention, it is the reality. The mood immediately shifts from wonderment to negativity. Creativity is lost and hopes are dashed.”
― Don Wettrick, Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level

“Leaders should create more leaders, plain and simple. Great leaders do not lead a bunch of followers; rather, they lead to enable more responsibility and trust within the group.”
― Don Wettrick, Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level

“When you lead with rules and regulations on the first day, you set a culture of limitations.”
― Don Wettrick, Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level

“provide them with experiences to grow by collaborating, creating a culture of positive failure, and allowing them the freedom to research and pursue what is important to them.”
― Don Wettrick, Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level

“pursuing anything valuable or important means you have to be willing to fail.”
― Don Wettrick, Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level

“the qualities Google looks for in an employee. Without hesitation most of them identified creativity, entrepreneurship, and innovation as the top three traits.”
― Don Wettrick, Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level

“Our universities need to reward risk takers and innovators over grade chasers.”
― Don Wettrick, Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level

“I don’t care if you teach for the next twenty years; just don’t teach one year twenty times.”
― Don Wettrick, Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level

“Using a wad of bubble gum, the foil wrapper, and a thread off his jacket, he could stymie a terrorist. We need attitudes like MacGyver’s to combat lackluster education.”
― Don Wettrick, Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level

“Done right, innovation can work with the Common Core and allow freedom in the teacher’s approach as well as in the students’ learning choices. An even bigger shift will occur when colleges begin to see the value of innovation and change, rather than focusing exclusively on the standard path toward higher learning.”
― Don Wettrick, Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level

“Don, I don’t care if you teach for the next twenty years; just don’t teach one year twenty times.”
― Don Wettrick, Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level

“Jeopardy! winners are out. Innovators are in.”
― Don Wettrick, Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level

“We need attitudes like MacGyver’s to combat lackluster education.”
― Don Wettrick, Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level