A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.

Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.

Life can only be understood backwards but you have to live it forward. You can only do that by stepping into uncertainty and by trying, within this uncertainty, to create your own islands of security....The new security will be a belief that ...if this doesn't work out you could do something else. You are your own security.

A good team is a great place to be, exciting, stimulating, supportive, successful. A bad team is horrible, a sort of human prison.

Creativity is born of chaos, even if it is somewhat difficult to glimpse the possibilities in the midst of the confusion.

Purpose, pattern, and people, the three P's at the heart of life.

If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.