What matters in the new economy is not return on investment, but return on imagination

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

We like to believe we can break strategy down to Five Forces or Seven Ss. But you can't. Strategy is extraordinarily emotional and demanding.

The value of your network is the square of the number of people in it.

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

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

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