Granted, I could go out and lose everything (by) gambling and drinking, but there's no sense in denying it. It's in my blood.

Ideas really do matter. But in any organization a good idea will only go so far unless its proponents are willing to fight the political games to get the idea adopted.

In some organizations, it is easy to say mistakes are okay when in truth it is a zero-defect organization. You will be remembered more for your mistakes than your successes in those organizations.

Do I have to know rules and all that crap? Then forget it.

I don't care what anybody says. The first tournament is not the hardest one to win. It's always the second one.

How you frame an issue shapes how it is viewed by others. Great advocates frame their ideas as problems that need solutions.

Idea-Advocacy Matrix highlights a couple of things: that good ideas need to be "sold" if they are ever going to see the light of day and bad ideas sometimes do quite well because of the skills of the proponent to sell them.