As a manager you're paid to be uncomfortable. If you're comfortable, it's a sure sign you're doing things wrong.

Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service. It is capable of being presented as a discipline, capable of being learned, capable of being practiced. Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation, the changes and their symptoms that indicate opportunities for successful innovation. And they need to know and to apply the principles of successful innovation.

Fortunately or unfortunately, the one predictable thing in any organization is the crisis. That always comes. That's when you do depend on the leader: The job of the leader is to build an organization that is battle-ready, that has high morale, that knows how to behave, that trusts itself, and where people trust one another.

One either meets or one works.

Entrepreneurship is “risky” mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

To make the future demands courage. It demands work. But it also demands faith.