As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.

In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.

Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been optional in the past, but its pretty much the whole game today.

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.

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.

I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.

For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past.