An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent.

An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.

Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.

In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.

I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.

Discovery is the journey; insight is the destination.

Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.