Never before has the gap between what we can imagine and what we can accomplish been smaller.

Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we have innovation to thank.

We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy.

From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top.

The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.

All too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.

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