In the age of revolution it is not knowledge that produces new wealth, but insight - insight into opportunities for discontinuous innovation. Discovery is the journey; insight is the destination. You must become your own seer.

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

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

The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.

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.

You can't use an old map to see a new land.

Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who's forging a bullet with your company's name on it. You've got one option now - to shoot first. You've got to out innovate the innovators.