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

Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.

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

Innovation is the fuel for growth. When a company runs out of innovation, it runs out of growth.

The problem with the future is that it is different, if you are unable to think differently, the future will always arrive as a surprise.

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.

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.