In the long term the most important question for a company is not what you are but what you are becoming.

The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.

I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.

What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.

Influence is like water. Always flowing somewhere.

Taking risks, breaking the rules, and being a maverick have always been important but today they are more crucial than ever.

We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy.