If we stopped wasting people's time, what would they do with it?

Better to have bad news that's true than good news we made up

If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker's bet. Sure, some entrepreneurs make a lot of money, but if you calculate the amount of stress-inducing work and time it takes and multiply that by the low likelihood of success and eventual payoff, it is not a great way to get rich.

Leadership requires creating conditions that enable employees to do the kinds of experimentation that entrepreneurship requires.

Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst.

Lean thinking defines value as providing benefit to the customer; anything else is waste.

Reading is good, action is better.