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.

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.

The single biggest reason companies fail is they overinvest in what is, as opposed to what might be.

Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance.

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

Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who's forging a bullet with your company's name on it. You've got one option now - to shoot first. You've got to out innovate the innovators.

Are we changing as fast as the world around us?