A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, they’re doing work that most any trained person could do.

The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission

If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do it. And yet our schools are churning out kids who are stuck looking for jobs where the boss tells them exactly what to do.

Anything worth achieving in life has a dip

The largest enemy of change isn't 'no', it's 'not yet' - that is the easiest way to forestall change.

My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.

If you don't require the journey to be easy or comfortable or safe, you can change the world.