We’ve been trained to prefer being right to learning something, to prefer passing the test to making a difference, and most of all, to prefer fitting in with the right people, the people with economic power. Now it’s your turn to stand up and stand out.

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.

Lack of resources (payroll), time and competing priorities are why so many nonprofits haven't done well. It's that simple.

You don't become indispensable merely because you are different. But the only way to become indispensable is to be different. That's because if you're the same, so are plenty of other people.

Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual.

As long as you want to please everyone, you won't please anyone.

No one is as smart as all of us.