Leaders grow; they are not made.
Yet there is nothing more dangerous than to be premature in exploiting a change in perception.
An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic.
Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.
Understanding our strengths, articulating our values, knowing where we belong -- these are also essential to addressing one of the great challenges of organizations: improving the abysmally low productivity of knowledge workers.
We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.