I'm fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies - in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.

We are no doubt in the Great Age of the Brand.

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.

Make an extensive table of project 'deliverables'. Label one column 'as requested'. Create another column labeled 'could be'. Make each 'could be' wild and woolly!

Celebrate what you want to see more of.

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

We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.