Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls.

Phones and soundtracks and Muzak and fountains replace genuine and unpredictable human contact with a seamless soundtrack from a bad movie and a cliche that makes us believe we must all be happy.

The best remote companies I've seen do almost everything online, via email and telephone. But they also get together face to face on a regular basis.

A thinking partner who isn't an echo chamber... How many of us dare to have such collaborators?

It is nobody's right to be waited on and nobody's fate to do the waiting.

Big data will never give you big ideas... Big data doesn't facilitate big leaps of the imagination. It will never conjure up a PC revolution or any kind of paradigm shift. And while it might tell you what to aim for, it can't tell you how to get there

One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.