Dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong. So instead of speaking to highly agreeable audiences, target suggestions to people with a history of originality.

Procrastinate strategically... Procrastination may be the enemy of productivity but it can be a valuable resource for creativity.

When you put off a task, you buy yourself time to engage in divergent thinking rather than foreclosing on one particular idea.

Enemies make better allies than frenemies.

The most meaningful way to succeed is to help others succeed.

People tend to have one of three 'styles' of interaction. There are takers, who are always trying to serve themselves; matchers, who are always trying to get equal benefit for themselves and others; and givers, who are always trying to help people.

This is what I find most magnetic about successful givers: they get to the top without cutting others down, finding ways of expanding the pie that benefit themselves and the people around them. Whereas success is zero-sum in a group of takers, in groups of givers, it may be true that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.