You have to pretend you're 100 percent sure. You have to take action; you can't hesitate or hedge your bets. Anything less will condemn your efforts to failure.

Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?

The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.

Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.

Assume any career move you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back.

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

Competition is warfare. Mostly it is played by prescribed rules--there is a sort of Geneva Convention for competition--but it's thorough and often brutal.