In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.

Innovation is the fuel for growth. When a company runs out of innovation, it runs out of growth.

In an increasingly non-linear economy, incremental change is not enough-you have to build a capacity for strategy innovation, one that increases your ability to recognize new opportunities.

There's a simple, but oft-neglected lesson here: to sustain success, you have to be willing to abandon things that are no longer successful.

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.

We live in a moment that is pregnant with possibility.

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