Ideas that transform industries almost never come from inside those industries.

Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we have innovation to thank.

One doesn't have to be a Marxist to be awed by the scale and success of early-20th-cent ury efforts to transform strong-willed human beings into docile employees.

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

The problem is not one of prediction. It is one of imagination.

The problem with the future is that it is different, if you are unable to think differently, the future will always arrive as a surprise.

Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been optional in the past, but its pretty much the whole game today.