Organizational structures of today demand too much from a few, and not much at all from everyone else.

Innovation is the fuel for growth. When a company runs out of innovation, it runs out of growth.

We live in a moment that is pregnant with possibility.

The only thing that can be safely predicted is that sometime soon your organization will be challenged to change in ways for which it has no precedent.

In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.

Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.

In most companies, the formal hierarchy is a matter of public record - it's easy to discover who's in charge of what. By contrast, natural leaders don't appear on any organization chart.