The first thing you do when you sit down at the computer: If you're an artist, a leader or someone seeking to make a difference, the first thing you do should be to lay tracks to accomplish your goals, not to hear how others have reacted/ responded/ insisted to what happened yesterday.

Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn't work.

All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.

The people who are the best in the world specialize at getting really good at the questions they don't know.

You market when you hire and when you fire. You market when you call tech support, and you market every time you send a memo.

If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning?

I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the expense. An amorphous organization with no transparency, unclear lines of responsibility, huge amounts of politics and a great deal of unearned power.