Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.

Important decisions are risky. They should be controversial. Acclamation means that nobody has done the homework.

In the managerial organization, the top people sit in judgment; in the innovative organization it is their job to encourage ideas, no matter how unripe or crude.

Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

If you have more than five goals, you have none.

"Plastic moments" are those periods that overlap when the old has gone but the new has not yet arrived and when the course of history is more open to being shaped and steered than any other time.