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

We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.

In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.

Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance.

Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.

The value of your network is the square of the number of people in it.

Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.