Growth that adds volume without improving productivity is fat. Growth that diminishes productivity is cancer.

Most organizations staff their problems & starve their opportunities.

I'm better about things than about people. I'm more interested in people, but I'm better at ideas.

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

Trust is congruence between what you say and what you do.

We have tried to substitute mass for purpose. We have tried to regain military potency of defense by making it gigantic, unwieldy, complex. It never works.

Do first things first, and second things not at all.