We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies - in the minds of those closest to the work.

The hero is the one with ideas.

For a large corporation to be effective, it must be simple. For an organization to be simple, its people must have self-confidence and intellectual self-assurance. Insecure managers create complexity, real leaders do not clutter.

Insecure managers create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use thick convoluted planning books and busy slides filled with everything they’ve known since childhood……. They worry that if they’re simple, people will think they’re simple minded. In reality, of course, it’s just the reverse. Clear, tough minded people are the most simple.

If you can't energize others, you can't be a leader.

It's the internet like the flu - it just spreads like crazy.

What business could be mature when you have economies with more than 2 billion people in India, China and Southeast Asia?