If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in.

So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.

Long distances used to be a moat that both insulated and isolated people from workers on the other side of the world. But every day, technology narrows that moat inch by inch. Every person in the world is on the verge of becoming both a coworker and a competitor to every one of us ... Technological change is going to reach out and sooner or later change something fundamental in your business world.

In the first round of work simplification...you can reasonably expect a 30 to 50 percent reduction...To implement the actual simplification, you must question why each step is performed. Typically, you will find that many steps exist in your work flow for no good reason. Often they are there by tradition or because formal procedure ordains it, and nothing practical ordains it.

Only the paranoid survive.

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

I don't see Merced appearing on a mainstream desktop inside of a decade.