During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned - not what should be changed or introduced. A willingness to depart from the familiar has distinct survival value.

Once the facts are clear the decisions jump out at you.

An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic.

What we are good at comes easy, and we believe that unless it comes hard, it can't be very good.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

"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.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.