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

Influence is like water. Always flowing somewhere.

Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.

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.

If customer ignorance is a profit centre for you, you're in trouble.

A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority.

One doesn't have to be a Marxist to be awed by the scale and success of early-20th-cent ury efforts to transform strong-willed human beings into docile employees.