As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating.

All too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.

All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths.

Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance.

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

The goal is not to speculate on what might happen, but to imagine what you can make happen.

In the age of revolution it is not knowledge that produces new wealth, but insight - insight into opportunities for discontinuous innovation. Discovery is the journey; insight is the destination. You must become your own seer.