All earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create it.

Increasingly, politics is not about "who gets what, when, how" but about values, each of them considered to be absolute. Politics is about "the right to life"...It is about the environment. It is about gaining equality for groups alleged to be oppressed...None of these issues is economic. All are fundamentally moral.

Replace your pursuit of success with the pursuit of contribution.

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.

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.

The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system's weaknesses irrelevant.

In most organizations, the bottleneck is at the top of the bottle.