If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.

No vision is worth the paper it's printed on unless it is communicated constantly and reinforced with rewards.

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.

No one is doing something in your business - getting a sale, having a key customer, working on an R&D project - doing anything that's more important than something you say is going to change the company.

There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.

...I think that ideally that is how a company works. It becomes a place of ideas, not a place of position.

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