The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they've got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.

The Cul-de-Sac ( French for "dead end" ) ... is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes

Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.

Not only are bloggers suckers for the remarkable, so are the people who read blogs.

Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.

I find that it's almost essential to fall in love with an idea to invest the time it takes to make it good and worth sharing. And then, the hard part: deleting that idea when it's just not what it could be. Too often, organizations are good at the first part, but struggle with the second. And so we defend expired business models, support the status quo and have a knee-jerk inclination to preserve what we've got.

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