A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.

This extraordinary arrogance that change must start at the top is a way of guaranteeing that change will not happen in most companies.

Business leaders must find ways to infuse mundane business activities with deeper, soul-stirring ideals, such as honor, truth, love, justice, and beauty.

Innovation is the fuel for growth. When a company runs out of innovation, it runs out of growth.

In most companies, the formal hierarchy is a matter of public record - it's easy to discover who's in charge of what. By contrast, natural leaders don't appear on any organization chart.

The only thing that can be safely predicted is that sometime soon your organization will be challenged to change in ways for which it has no precedent.

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