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

To improve communications, work not on the utter, but the recipient.

Leaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise.

Do the right things instead of trying to do everything right.

In the managerial organization, the top people sit in judgment; in the innovative organization it is their job to encourage ideas, no matter how unripe or crude.

Any time I have seen someone accomplishing something magnificent, they have been a monomaniac with a mission. A single-minded individual with a passion.

One has to make a decision when a condition is likely to degenerate if nothing is done.