The opportunities for future growth are everywhere. Seeing the future has nothing to do with speculating about what might happen. Rather, you must understand the revolutionary potential of what is already happening.

The single biggest reason companies fail is they overinvest in what is, as opposed to what might be.

The problem with the future is that it is different, if you are unable to think differently, the future will always arrive as a surprise.

We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy.

In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.

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

During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.