To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Don't let the vision be shot through with holes, but be damn sure some of your best and brightest are shooting at it -- with bazookas as well as sniper's rifles.

The company's most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand - innovation from everyone.

The trouble with much of the advice business gets today about the need to be more vigorously creative is that its advocates often fail to distinguish between creativity and innovation. Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things... The shortage is of innovators.

Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.