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.

Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we have innovation to thank.

There are as many foolhardy ways to grow as there are to downsize.

The goal is not to speculate on what might happen, but to imagine what you can make happen.

You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.

We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy.

In an increasingly non-linear economy, incremental change is not enough-you have to build a capacity for strategy innovation, one that increases your ability to recognize new opportunities.