The problem is not one of prediction. It is one of imagination.

Whatever you shoot is dead for a while before it starts to stink. The same goes for strategies. How many organizations carry this dead thing around with them, unaware of its irrelevancy until it is too late?

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

Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.

Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.

I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.

Influence is like water. Always flowing somewhere.