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.

Influence is like water. Always flowing somewhere.

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

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

In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.

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

Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.