For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history.

A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority.

Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you're on a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. Of course, there are other strategies. You can change riders. You can get a committee to study the dead horse. You can benchmark how other companies ride dead horses. You can declare that it's cheaper to feed a dead horse. You can harness several dead horses together. But after you've tried all these things, you're still going to have to dismount.

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.

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.

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

Organizational structures of today demand too much from a few, and not much at all from everyone else.