Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.

In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.

It doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is - what matters is its relative 'share of customer value' in the final product or solution, and its cost of producing that value.

From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top.

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.

Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.

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