People who bring transformative change have courage, know how to re-frame the problem and have a sense of urgency.

My point is that the great challenge of an artist is to balance those two things: to be strong enough to have your own personal vision that you will put on the page or the canvas or the screen, no matter what people say, but it requires a radical sensitivity. You have to be completely open to what the world is telling you, to what your audience tells you. And balancing those two things is nearly impossible.

An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.

People are experience-rich and theory-poor. I help people organize / make sense of their experiences.

Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge... It's whether our work fulfills us.

There are some people, who I'll charitably call snobs, who are dismissive of any conversation that doesn't begin with the full level of complexity. That's just not how the world works.