To stay vigorous, a company needs to provide a stimulating and challenging environment for all these types: the dreamer, the entrepreneur, the professional manager, and the leader. If it doesn't, it risks becoming yet another mediocre corporation.

If you put on a lousy production with white actors, it's lousy. There is a problem, or can be, at this stage of our social evolution, with mixing the casts. It may not be a question of race so much as class. You would rarely find a black man in a high executive position where he was swinging his weight around.

In anything we do, any endeavor, it's not what you do; it's why you do it

Often, organizations need bold, grand gestures to galvanize people towards a new mission or refocus their attention.

Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don't embrace the status quo.

At an early age, my mother gave me this feeling that anything is possible, and I believe that.

It's ironic that no matter where I go, I meet people from Brooklyn. I'm proud of that heritage. It's where I'm from, who I am.