This extraordinary arrogance that change must start at the top is a way of guaranteeing that change will not happen in most companies.

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

The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.

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.

To be embraced, a change effort must be socially constructed in a process that gives everyone the right to set priorities, diagnose barriers, and generate options.

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

In the long term the most important question for a company is not what you are but what you are becoming.