Understanding our strengths, articulating our values, knowing where we belong -- these are also essential to addressing one of the great challenges of organizations: improving the abysmally low productivity of knowledge workers.

Above all, innovation is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology.

Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change

One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with giving money; we also feel we need to work.

Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.

An established company which, in an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovation, is doomed to decline and extinction.

Knowledge applied is productivity.