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.

We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.

What matters in the new economy is not return on investment, but return on imagination

Only stupid questions create wealth.

The single biggest reason companies fail is they overinvest in what is, as opposed to what might be.

At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative that suggests human life has cosmic significance, and on the other a duty to yield to moral commands that can, in the moment, seem rather inconvenient.

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.