Almost always great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before.

Intimate, loving, and enduring relationships with our family and close friends will be among the sources of the deepest joy in our lives.

The best strategy is a balance between having a deliberate one, and a flexible, or emergent strategy.

You can invest to create the new growth business while the core business is still growing, because new business units don't need to get big fast. But when the core business stops growing, investing to create new growth businesses becomes impossible.

If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late.

Each of our children during their high school years went to 'early morning seminary' - scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15.

To prop up the stock price, managers have to turn down the screws on everybody. That forces them to cancel all the projects that would lead to future growth in order to drop money to the bottom line. This is HP's dilemma today. Once a company's growth has stopped, the game as we have known it is over. It's a scary thing.