We want to understand what works here rather than what worked at any other organization.

I don't think you'll ever replace human judgment and human inspiration and creativity because, at the end of the day, you need to be asking questions like, O.K., the system says this. Is this really what we want to do? Is that the right thing?

One of the applications of Big Data is giving people the facts, and getting them to understand that their own decision-making is not perfect. And that in itself causes them to change their behavior

Part of the challenge with leadership is that it's very driven by gut instinct in most cases - and even worse, everyone thinks they're really good at it. The reality is that very few people are.

The focus on process rather than purpose creates an insidious opportunity for sly employees to manipulate the system.

We want to understand what works here rather than what worked at any other organization.

If your goals are ambitious and crazy enough, even failure will be a pretty good achievement.