If general perception changes from seeing the glass as 'half-full' to seeing it as 'half empty' there are major innovative opportunities.

I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am teaching above all else, how to manage oneself.

What is the major problem? It is fundamentally the confusion between effectiveness and efficiency that stands between doing the right things and doing things right. There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

The real achiever do one thing at a time.

Innovation requires us to systematically identify changes that have already occurred in a business - in demographics, in values, in technology or science - and then to look at them as opportunities. It also requires something that is most difficult for existing companies to do: to abandon rather than defend yesterday.

With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe; they are themselves Europe.

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