The goal is not to speculate on what might happen, but to imagine what you can make happen.

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.

**New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight.** That's right - the essential insight doesn't come out of any dirigiste planning process; it comes form some cocktail of happenstance, desire, curiosity, ambition and need. But at the end of the day, there has to be a degree of foresight -- a sense of where new riches lie. So radical innovation is always one part fortuity and one part clearheaded vision. [first-line bold by author] [2002] p.23

In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.

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

An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent.

Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.