What can I contribute that will significantly affect the performance and the results of the institution I serve?

Most Americans do not know what their strengths are. When you ask them, they look at you with a blank stare, or they respond in terms of subject knowledge, which is the wrong answer.

Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.

Progress is obtained only by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. When you solve problems, all you do is guarantee a return to normalcy.

Effective innovations start small. They are not grandiose. They try to do one specific thing.

If the feudal knight was the clearest embodiment of society in the early Middle Ages, and the "bourgeois" under Capitalism, the educated person will represent society in the post-capitalist society in which knowledge has become the central resource.

The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.