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.

Companies do not do new things because they understand it but because they feel it.

Your organization can start tweeting, but that wont change its DNA.

At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative that suggests human life has cosmic significance, and on the other a duty to yield to moral commands that can, in the moment, seem rather inconvenient.

As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.

In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.

Strategy is, above all else, the search for above average returns.