Leaders trust their guts. "Intuition" is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a "soft" notion. Garbage! Intuition is the new physics. It's an Einsteinian, seven-sense, practical way to make tough decisions. Bottom line, circa 2001 to 2010: The crazier the times are, the more important it is for leaders to develop and to trust their intuition.

Skill at creating, exploiting, and exiting crucial alliances beats ownership of fixed assets

The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism - the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.

The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.

How do you humiliate and demean someone and then expect him or her to care about product quality.