There is nothing worse than doing the wrong thing well.

The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don't spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I have met don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop

Change is the norm; unless an organization sees that its task is to lead change, that organization will not survive.

Innovation requires us to systematically identify changes that have already occurred in a business - in demographics, in values, in technology or science - and then to look at them as opportunities. It also requires something that is most difficult for existing companies to do: to abandon rather than defend yesterday.

All earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create it.

Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past.