Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.

A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.

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.

One way of building private foresight out of public data is looking where others aren't ... if you want to see the future, go to an industry confab and get the list of what was talked about. Then ask, "What did people never talk about?" That's where you're going to find opportunity.

An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent.

I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.

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