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.

Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.

... outsiders are way more likely to approach your organization with fabulous projects if they think they're likely to both get a good reception and succeed when they get to market.

The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.

I think "creativity" is better described as failing repeatedly until you get something right.

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

The best creative solutions don't come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented... They come from inventing new questions!