A fundamental responsibility of leadership is make sure that everybody knows the mission, understands it, lives it.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection.

Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage.

If the feudal knight was the clearest embodiment of society in the early Middle Ages, and the "bourgeois" under Capitalism, the educated person will represent society in the post-capitalist society in which knowledge has become the central resource.

Change is the norm; unless an organization sees that its task is to lead change, that organization will not survive.

Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order... catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men accept existing forms, institutions and tenets as unalterable natural laws. They suddenly exposed the vacuum behind the facade of society.

Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.