Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I've worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were all over the map in terms of their personalities, attitudes, values, strengths, and weaknesses.

Look at government programs for the past fifty years. Every single one - except warfare - achieved the exact opposite of its announced goal.

To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

Effective organizations put people in jobs in which they can do the most good. They place people -- and allow people to place themselves -- according to their strengths.

The postwar [WWII] GI Bill of Rights - and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans - signaled the shift to the knowledge society. Future historians may consider it the most important event of the twentieth century. We are clearly in the midst of this transformation; indeed, if history is any guide, it will not be completed until 2010 or 2020. But already it has changed the political, economic and moral landscape of the world.

The better a man is the more mistakes will he make – for the more new things he will try.