The connection economy rewards the leader, the initiator, and the rebel.

Creating ideas that spread and connecting the disconnected are the two pillars of our new society, and both of them require the posture of the artist

Hope without a strategy doesn’t generate leadership. Leadership comes when your hope and your optimism are matched with a concrete vision of the future and a way to get there. People won’t follow you if they don’t believe you can get to where you say you’re going.

It certainly seems too simple to say what I am going to say, yet it is almost as if you would be better off turning the entire rational approach upside down, taking it for granted that all of its assumptions were false, for they are indeed more false than true.

Ordinary thinking and ordinary effort are almost never enough to generate leadership.

Marketers need to spend less time making promises and more time keeping them.

My mother-in-law is obsessed with clowns.