You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.

It's hard in daily life. It's even harder in management because it's the stress of the moment.

It's quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.

It's pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.

A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.

There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.

Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.