You cannot prevent a major catastrophe, but you can build an organization that is battle-ready, where people trust one another. In military training, the first rule is to instill soldiers with trust in their officers - because without trust, they won't fight.

Defending yesterday is far more risky than making tomorrow.

The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.

Do not measure your life by your goals but what you are doing to achieve them.

Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

It is commonly believed that innovations create changes - but few ever do. Successful innovations exploit changes that have already happened.

Morale in an organization does not mean that "people get along together"; the test is performance not conformance.