people are all there is to an organization

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.

All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths.

In the age of revolution it is not knowledge that produces new wealth, but insight - insight into opportunities for discontinuous innovation. Discovery is the journey; insight is the destination. You must become your own seer.

As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.

This extraordinary arrogance that change must start at the top is a way of guaranteeing that change will not happen in most companies.

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