Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.

Alan Kay's famous aphorism is that perspective is worth 80 IQ points. An innovative insight is not the product of an individual's brilliance. It's not as if innovators' heads are wired in different ways. Innovation typically comes from looking at the world through a slightly different lens.

Companies do not do new things because they understand it but because they feel it.

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

Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who's forging a bullet with your company's name on it. You've got one option now - to shoot first. You've got to out innovate the innovators.

Strategy is, above all else, the search for above average returns.

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