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

It's important to remember that innovators in business don't always get a platform.

In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.

An adaptable company is one that captures more than its fair share of new opportunities. It's always redefining its 'core business' in ways that open up new avenues for growth.

Whatever you shoot is dead for a while before it starts to stink. The same goes for strategies. How many organizations carry this dead thing around with them, unaware of its irrelevancy until it is too late?

Organizational structures of today demand too much from a few, and not much at all from everyone else.

In the long term the most important question for a company is not what you are but what you are becoming.