[Entrepreneurship] is by no means hunch or gamble. But it also is not precisely science. Rather, it is judgment.

To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.

There are companies that are good at improving what they're already doing. There are companies that are good at extending what they're doing. And finally there are companies that are good at innovation. Every large company has to be able to do all three - improve, extend, and innovate - simultaneously.

One can either work or meet. One cannot do both at the same time.

The fruit of your work grows on other people's trees

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.