Strategy is, above all else, the search for above average returns.

The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.

Great accomplishments start with great aspirations.

Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.

The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.

Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.

Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes -- while no becoming an extremist. ... **Most companies don't do paradox very well.** (emphasis by author) [2002] p.25f