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.

When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.

Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.

I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business.

To be embraced, a change effort must be socially constructed in a process that gives everyone the right to set priorities, diagnose barriers, and generate options.

We like to believe we can break strategy down to Five Forces or Seven Ss. But you can't. Strategy is extraordinarily emotional and demanding.

I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.