We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.

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

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

The opportunities for future growth are everywhere. Seeing the future has nothing to do with speculating about what might happen. Rather, you must understand the revolutionary potential of what is already happening.

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

When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.

The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.