Win small, win early, win often.

Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.

As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.

In most companies, the formal hierarchy is a matter of public record - it's easy to discover who's in charge of what. By contrast, natural leaders don't appear on any organization chart.

The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.

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

In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.