The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.

Only stupid questions create wealth.

Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.

In an increasingly non-linear economy, incremental change is not enough-you have to build a capacity for strategy innovation, one that increases your ability to recognize new opportunities.

One way of building private foresight out of public data is looking where others aren't ... if you want to see the future, go to an industry confab and get the list of what was talked about. Then ask, "What did people never talk about?" That's where you're going to find opportunity.

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

Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.