It's better to over-pay for A-level talent early on, even if you can't afford it. They will drive exponential value and help you win faster.

Business today is all about improvisation, which is the essence of jazz. Perhaps in the past we could just follow the operating manual and do what we were told, but today the world is too complex and fast. Today it's all about real-time innovation and creativity. Individuals may get hired based on their resumes, but they'll get promoted and reach their dreams based on their ability to create. In that context, being a jazz musician was the best MBA I could have ever received.

Creativity is what will separate the winners from the also-rans in the emerging world of business - and life.

One idea can be transformative. One idea can change your career, your life, your community, your family, and even the world. I truly believe that each of us have at least one special game-changing idea inside us right now. The trick is, how do we get it out?

It's better to over-pay for A-level talent early on, even if you can't afford it. They will drive exponential value and help you win faster.

You can't be great at everything, but you are world-class at something. Go. Figure out what that is. It's how you win.

You don't often see the words "Discipline" and "Dreaming" in the same sentence. But I believe this duality is critically important to win in both business and life. Dreaming without discipline is fantasy land. Discipline without dreaming creates rigid and stifling bureaucracies. Having a process to enable the creative process will help liberate the creativity that lives within every organization and individual.