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.

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.

Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.

If customer ignorance is a profit centre for you, you're in trouble.

In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.

Alan Kay's famous aphorism is that perspective is worth 80 IQ points. An innovative insight is not the product of an individual's brilliance. It's not as if innovators' heads are wired in different ways. Innovation typically comes from looking at the world through a slightly different lens.

In an increasingly non-linear economy, incremental change is not enough-you have to build a capacity for strategy innovation, one that increases your ability to recognize new opportunities.