No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.

Lack of candor blocks smart ideas, fast action, and good people contributing all the stuff they've got. It's a killer.

The hero is the one with ideas.

The binders, the charts, the grids may seem formidable, but the meetings themselves are built around informality, trust, emotion and humor.

Innovation is not a big breakthrough invention every time. Innovation is a constant thing. But if you don't have an innovative company [team], coming to work everyday to find a better way, you don't have a company[team]. You're getting ready to die on the vine. You're always looking for the next innovation, the next niche, the next product improvement, the next service improvement. But always trying to get better.

A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be

Simple messages travel faster, simpler designs reach the market faster and the elimination of clutter allows faster decision making.