Everyone, you know, during crises times, is much more focused on, okay, how do we get the boat completely seaworthy, sailing along well, and everything going well? And so as long as you're communicating how the general strategy of the company and how the work they can do to add to that and to make that more successful and the thing that they can contribute to that, that is generally very motivating for employees in crisis times.

The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.

Benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards.

Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.

The question is: how you cross uneven ground, how you assemble networks around you.

Data only exists within the framework of a vision you're building to, a hypothesis of where you're moving to.

It's better to be the best connected than the most connected.