Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn't deliver, the king cut off his head.

To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.

In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.

The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.

There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.

Never in history has distance meant less.

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb