Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Vijay Govindarajan

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an author Vijay Govindarajan.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Vijay Govindarajan, popularly known as VG, is the Coxe Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business and Marvin Bower Fellow, 2015–16 at Harvard Business School. He is a Faculty Partner in the Silicon Valley Incubator Mach49. He worked as General Electric's innovation consultant and professor in residence from 2008 to 2010. He is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling author and a two-time winner of the McKinsey Award for the best article published in Harvard Business Review. VG was inducted into the Thinkers 50 Hall of Fame in 2019 for his life-long work dedicated to the field of management, strategy, and innovation. VG received Thinkers 50 Distinguished Achievement Awards in two different categories: Breakthrough Idea Award in 2011 and Innovation Award in 2019.

Author | Born: November 18, 1949

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The more you hardwire a company on total quality management, the more it is going to hurt breakthrough innovation.

Vijay Govindarajan

The mindset that is needed, the capabilities that are needed, the metrics that are needed, the whole culture that is needed for discontinuous innovation, are fundamentally different.

Vijay Govindarajan

Mike Myatt’s ‘Hacking Leadership’ is a must read… Mike combines insightful yet practical commentary with in the trenches leadership experience few can match. I would highly recommend this text to anyone looking to become a better leader.

Vijay Govindarajan

Companies over-emphasize idea generation and under-emphasize idea execution when it comes to innovation.

Vijay Govindarajan

We must think of innovation as doing a lot more for a lot less (money) for a lot more (people).

Vijay Govindarajan