An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

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.

Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.

Control your destiny or somebody will.

In difficult times your best must be hugged, loved, kissed, rewarded, paid - everything. And your worst must be the people that leave, because your best are going to take you to the next game.

Hierarchy is an organization with its face toward the CEO and its ass toward the customer.

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