For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.

All businesses and jobs depend on a vast number of people, often unnoticed and unthanked, without which nothing really gets done. They are all human and deserve respect and gratitude.

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

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.

Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to do so and no process that promises redress.