We learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us.

Tradition is a very powerful force.

A leader needs enough understanding to fashion an intelligent strategy.

The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.

Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales with a little drama are remembered far longer than any slide crammed with analytics.

Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.

Never underestimate the power of the mind to disempower.