Knowledge applied is productivity.

The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question.

Thus, for those who are willing to go out into the field, to look and to listen, changing demographics is both a highly productive and a highly dependable innovation opportunity.

The monomaniac is unlikely to succeed. Most leave only their bleached bones in the roadless desert. But the rest of us, with our multiple interests instead of a single mission, are certain to fail and have no impact at all.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.

Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence.