In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.

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

Quality of character doesn't make a leader, but the lack of it flaws the entire process.

We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those areas a knowledge workers should not take on work, jobs and assignments. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.

Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.

Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure.

In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important event historians will see is not technology, not the Internet, not e-commerce. It is an unprecedented change in the human condition. For the first time - literally - substantial and rapidly growing numbers of people have choices. For the first time, they will have to manage themselves. And society is totally unprepared for it.