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

Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been optional in the past, but its pretty much the whole game today.

It's important to remember that innovators in business don't always get a platform.

Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.

Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.

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.

Are we changing as fast as the world around us?