I'm not very good at sitting still.

If you are trying to improve the performance of existing operations in known markets, it is an analytical problem where it's just a question of aligning your execution engine in the right way. If it is about creating something new and different, you can't derive the right answer analytically.

Good innovators like to solve business crossword puzzles.

Teams working on disruptive ideas need to be small enough that they can be fed by no more than two pizzas.

It takes a great deal of humility to recognize you have made a wrong turn on the road to successful innovation, but better to stop and try a radically different approach then to continue down the wrong route for too long.

I think the most important thing to do is to recognize the fundamentally different circumstances of pursuing growth.

You have to make the decision about whether you want to avoid or you want to overcome the resistance.