Effective visions are lived in details, not broad strokes.

Because nearly all digital libraries are tied to bricks-and-mortar institutions, the funding base tends to be quite localized.

Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services - from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants - are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz.

If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.

An era similar to the one in which the black rotary phone dominated its product category may not recur anytime soon.

I don't believe in holy writ. Buy fifty books or twenty-five books, take three weeks off, read them and make up your own theory. The fact that you end up literally burning twenty-two out of twenty-five books is beside the point.

OLD: Be No.1 or No.2 in Your Market. NEW: Find a Niche, Create Something New.