The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Innovation comes only from readily and seamlessly sharing information rather than hoarding it.

Winston Churchill said that appetite was the most important thing about education. Leadership guru Warren Bennis says he wants to be remembered as 'curious to the end.' David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity 'about every subject under the sun.'

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.

The most important and visible outcropping of the action bias in excellent companies is their willingness to try things out, to experiment. If you wait until you believe you are safe, sure to be without occasional foolish feelings, you've most likely waited too long.

A career is a portfolio of projects that teach you new skills, gain you new expertise, develop new capabilities, grow your colleague set, and constantly reinvent you as a brand.