An adaptable company is one that captures more than its fair share of new opportunities. It's always redefining its 'core business' in ways that open up new avenues for growth.

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

All too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.

It's important to remember that innovators in business don't always get a platform.

Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we have innovation to thank.

Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.

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