Strategy is, above all else, the search for above average returns.
Ideas that transform industries almost never come from inside those industries.
The value of your network is the square of the number of people in it.
This extraordinary arrogance that change must start at the top is a way of guaranteeing that change will not happen in most companies.
In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.
I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.