Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.

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

Competition for the future is competition to create and dominate emerging opportunities-to stake out new competitive space. Creating the future is more challenging than playing catch up, in that you have to create your own roadmap.

Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.

This extraordinary arrogance that change must start at the top is a way of guaranteeing that change will not happen in most companies.

Any company that cannot imagine the future won't be around to enjoy it.

Business leaders must find ways to infuse mundane business activities with deeper, soul-stirring ideals, such as honor, truth, love, justice, and beauty.