During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.

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

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

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

The problem is not one of prediction. It is one of imagination.

We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy.

There are as many foolhardy ways to grow as there are to downsize.