No organization ever created an innovation. People innovate, not companies.

You can win with consistent benefits, delivered over time. You win by incrementally earning share, attention and trust.

Your peer group are people with similar dreams, goals and worldviews. They are people who will push you in exchange for being pushed, who will raise the bar and tell you the truth. They're not in your business, but they're in your shoes. Finding a peer group and working with them, intentionally and on a regular schedule, might be the single biggest boost your career can experience.

Design is the last great competitive advantage.

When we think of design, we usually imagine things that are chosen because they are designed. Vases or comic books or architecture... It turns out, though, that most of what we make or design is actually aimed at a public that is there for something else. The design is important, but the design is not the point. Call it "public design"... Public design is for individuals who have to fill out our tax form, interact with our website or check into our hotel room despite the way it's designed, not because of it.

Leadership is a choice. It's the choice not to do nothing.

What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer? If you're not, you're wasting away.