Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.

The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive.

Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast.

Teaching 23-year-olds in an MBA programme strikes me as largely a waste of time. They lack the background of experience. You can teach them skills - accounting and what have you - but you can't teach them management.

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

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.

Every single social and global issue of our day is a business opportunity in disguise.