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

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.

Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.

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.

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

Are we changing as fast as the world around us?

Companies do not do new things because they understand it but because they feel it.