A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is. And lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you'll go out of business.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

Good programmers stay open minded to that even though there is no obvious way to improve what they've done they... they keep looking and they listen to what other people have to say.

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.

Ridiculous sums of money can be confusing.

The only big companies that succeed will be those that obsolete their own products before somebody else does.