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

Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance.

Never before has the gap between what we can imagine and what we can accomplish been smaller.

Business leaders must find ways to infuse mundane business activities with deeper, soul-stirring ideals, such as honor, truth, love, justice, and beauty.

Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.

For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history.

The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.