I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their visitors.

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

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

When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.

Ideas that transform industries almost never come from inside those industries.

Perseverance may be just as important as speed in the battle for the future.

The only thing that can be safely predicted is that sometime soon your organization will be challenged to change in ways for which it has no precedent.