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

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.

In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.

Somewhere out there is a bullet with your company's name on it. Somewhere out there is a competitor, unborn and unknown, that will render your strategy obsolete. You can't dodge the bullet – you're going to have to shoot first. You're going to have to out-innovate the innovators.

Influence is like water. Always flowing somewhere.

As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.

A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority.