Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.

The most effective way to manage change is to create it.

Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had probably an equal impact if not a greater one.

Innovation requires us to systematically identify changes that have already occurred in a business - in demographics, in values, in technology or science - and then to look at them as opportunities. It also requires something that is most difficult for existing companies to do: to abandon rather than defend yesterday.

Elephants have a hard time adapting. Cockroaches outlive everything.

Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.

Technology is not about tools, it deals with how Man works.