David Kelley Quotes

Failure sucks, but instructs.

Striving for perfection can get in the way during the early stages of the creative process.

Belief in your creative capacity lies at the heart of innovation.

Fail faster. Succeed sooner.” — David Kelley, founder IDEO

Consciously or not, we feel and internalize what the space tells us about how to work. When you walk into most offices, the space tells you that it's meant for a group of people to work alone. Closed-off desks sprout off of lonely hallways, and in a few obligatory conference rooms a huge table ensures that people are safely separated from one another.

Then I spoke with proven shapers I knew—Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Reed Hastings, Muhammad Yunus, Geoffrey Canada, Jack Dorsey (of Twitter), David Kelley (of IDEO), and more. They had all visualized remarkable concepts and built organizations to actualize them, and done that repeatedly and over long periods of time. I asked them to take an hour’s worth of personality assessments to discover their values, abilities, and approaches. While not perfect, these assessments have been invaluable. (In fact, I have been adapting and refining them to help us in our recruiting and management.) The answers these shapers provided to the standardized questions gave me objective and statistically measurable evidence about their similarities and differences. It turns out they have a lot in common. They are all independent thinkers who do not let anything or anyone stand in the way of achieving their audacious goals. They have very strong mental maps of how things should be done, and at the same time a willingness to test those mental maps in the world of reality and change the ways they do things to make them work better. They are extremely resilient, because their need to achieve what they envision is stronger than the pain they experience as they struggle to achieve it. Perhaps most interesting, they have a wider range of vision than most people, either because they have that vision themselves or because they know how to get it from others who can see what they can’t. All are able to see both big pictures and granular details (and levels in between) and synthesize the perspectives they gain at those different levels, whereas most people see just one or the other. They are simultaneously creative, systematic, and practical. They are assertive and open-minded at the same time. Above all, they are passionate about what they are doing, intolerant of people who work for them who aren’t excellent at what they do, and want to have a big, beneficial impact on the world.

It is out of character for a country that prides itself on intellectual freedom to put the education of its young in the hands of the state.

there’s no word in the Tibetan language for “creativity” or “being creative.” The closest translation is “natural.

The main tenet of design thinking is empathy for the people you're trying to design for. Leadership is exactly the same thing - building empathy for the people that you're entrusted to help.

Everything is a prototype,” says Claudia. “So, we would do an org change and I would say to everyone, 'It's a prototype.” Which means (a) I have permission to be wrong and (b) I want your feedback if it's not working.

Her philosophy, Objectivism, advocates reason, individualism, and personal happiness. Conservatives are more likely to favor faith, tradition, and duty as core values. Politically, Objectivism is classically liberal or libertarian. It expresses a worldview associated with the Enlightenment. Ayn Rand fundamentally rejected the conservative-liberal distinction in culture.

Do self-fulfilling prophecies color our personal relationships? There are times when negative expectations of someone lead us to be extra nice to that person, which induces him or her to be nice in return—thus disconfirming our expectations. But a more common finding in studies of social interaction is that, yes, we do to some extent get what we expect (Olson & others, 1996). In laboratory games, hostility nearly always begets hostility: People who perceive their opponents as noncooperative will readily induce them to be noncooperative (Kelley & Stahelski, 1970). Each party’s perception of the other as aggressive, resentful, and vindictive induces the other to display those behaviors in selfdefense, thus creating a vicious self-perpetuating circle. In another experiment, people anticipated interacting with another person of a different race. When led to expect that the person disliked interacting with someone of their race, they felt more anger and displayed more hostility toward the person (Butz & Plant, 2006). Likewise, whether I expect my wife to be in a bad mood or in a loving mood may affect how I relate to her, thereby inducing her to confirm my belief.

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feminist Abby Kelley to the executive committee by a tally of 557 to 451.

At the end of the interrogation, Moustakas said, Kelley was escorted out of CIA headquarters by a senior counterintelligence officer, who also took his badge. He was placed on administrative leave that was to last twenty-one months. In limbo, falsely accused as a spy and facing a possible death penalty, Kelley, having served his country for thirty-seven years, had nowhere to turn. He could only wait, and hope that he would eventually be cleared of the crime he knew he had not committed.

Clara Shih is the founding CEO and executive chair of Hearsay Systems and the CEO of Salesforce AI. She agrees “with the notion of embracing the mess while working to clean it up.” Clara adds that, especially when you are doing something new, even though you don’t know which messes will arise, it’s best to expect that things will go wrong. Rather than being shocked or freaking out, be ready to make repairs if you can, but as David Kelley suggests, keep moving forward through the muck.

Contents Abstract A Theory of Abstraction Perception and Similarity Abstraction: The First Stage Similarity and Measurement Abstraction: The Second Stage Conclusion Acknowledgments References The Atlas Society

Self-sacrifice ends in pain and death. It is rational selfishness that leads to health, happiness, love, and trust.

The Objectivist ethics holds that human good does not require human sacrifices and cannot be achieved by the sacrifice of anyone to anyone. It holds that the rational interests of men do not clash—that there is no conflict of interests among men who do not desire the unearned, who do not make sacrifices nor accept them, who deal with one another as traders, giving value for value.[13]

free-market capitalism and free expression allow people to flourish and cooperate. Freedom encourages independence and responsibility, too, because it respects the fact the we are each individuals.

Fail faster. Succeed sooner.

You have to believe that learning and growth are possible. (p. 30)

...regardless of our initial talent, aptitude, or even IQ, we can expand our capabilities through effort and experience. (p. 31)

Employees are valued for their technical expertise but even more for their willingness to try new things that might not work. To encourage teams, one of the mottoes at IDEO is “Fail often, in order to succeed sooner,” and David Kelley, CEO until 2000, was known to routinely wander the Palo Alto studio cheerfully saying, “Fail fast to succeed sooner.

But how does IDEO keep up its enviable reputation with all of that failure? The answer is simple. Most of IDEO’s failures happen behind closed doors. And they happen through disciplined, iterative teamwork that draws on multiple areas of expertise. IDEO’s also a place where company leaders—starting with the visible David Kelley exhorting teams to fail fast and often—have worked hard to build an environment of psychological safety for risk-taking.

The current scene hasn't arisen by chance. Rather, there's "a definite strategy to it," according to John Altman, who began reviving the old farm David's Folly with his wife. Like Semler and Moffet, Altman knows making a resilient alternative to the mainstream requires knowing how "to cultivate the community" as well as the land. These efforts are succeeding; this remote peninsula supports three weekly farmers' markets during the summer and one in the winter.

The AASS had established a fledgling newspaper in Salem, Ohio, the Bugle, and the indefatigable Abby Kelley, along with her husband, Stephen Foster, and others, had laid the moral-suasionist

It’s hopeless to argue with conspiracy theorists, or Flat Earthers. Life is short, irrationality is endless. Spending time and energy engaging with someone who has displayed consistent irrationality is the loss of time that could be spent engaging with more reasonable and honest partners.

Thinking is a capacity with a biological basis. It takes effort. It consumes energy—some 20% of the body’s total budget goes to supporting brain activity.

In analyzing a series of setbacks, a key question to ask is Am I failing differently each time? “If you keep making the same68 mistakes again and again,” the IDEO founder David Kelley has observed, “you aren’t learning anything. If you keep making new and different mistakes, that means you are doing new things and learning new things.