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

I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business.

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

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.

Your organization can start tweeting, but that wont change its DNA.

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.

You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.