Competition for the future is competition to create and dominate emerging opportunities-to stake out new competitive space. Creating the future is more challenging than playing catch up, in that you have to create your own roadmap.

Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.

This extraordinary arrogance that change must start at the top is a way of guaranteeing that change will not happen in most companies.

Somewhere out there is a bullet with your company's name on it. Somewhere out there is a competitor, unborn and unknown, that will render your strategy obsolete. You can't dodge the bullet – you're going to have to shoot first. You're going to have to out-innovate the innovators.

For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past.

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.