If you aren't experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it.

You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.

If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else.

Success hides problems...you don't need to address problems.

I love solving the problems of having groups work together and removing barriers. But to actually turn around and be in the center of that is an awkward place to be.

Every creative person can draft into service those around them who exhibit the right mixture of intelligence, insight, and grace.

We start from the presumption that our people are talented and want to contribute. We accept that, without meaning to, our company is stifling that talent in myriad unseen ways. Finally, we try to identify those impediments and fix them.