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

You can't use an old map to see a new land.

Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.

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

All too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.

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.

Somewhere out there is a bullet with your company's name on it. Somewhere out there is a competitor, unborn and unknown, that will render your strategy obsolete. You can't dodge the bullet – you're going to have to shoot first. You're going to have to out-innovate the innovators.