The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you’ve got ambition and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession, regardless of where you started out.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

If something fails despite being carefully planned, carefully designed, and conscientiously executed, that failure often bespeaks underlying change and, with it, opportunity.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure.