Influence is like water. Always flowing somewhere.

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

Perseverance may be just as important as speed in the battle for the future.

All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths.

Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.

Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.

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.