Everyone I know feels harassed by email which has invaded their waking and sleeping hours.

A fantastic model of collaboration: thinking partners who aren't echo chambers.

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

Business is not a science; it is not susceptible to experiments that can be controlled and replicated. Everything in business is too unpredictable for that - every business, employee, product, market is different and keeps changing.

Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.

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.

Companies don't have ideas. Only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds of loyalty and trust they develop around each other.