Even a poor, out-of-datecollection reflects in its own way the values of the people who created it and the community it serves.

If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven't figured it out yet.

Want to accomplish something, any-damn-thing? Sharpen your political skills!

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.

The little people will get even, which is one of a thousand reasons why they are not little people at all. If you're a jerk as a leader, you will be torpedoed. And usually it won't be by your vice presidents; it will be on the loading dock at 3am when no supervisors are around.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

Never, ever rest on your laurels. Today's laurels are tomorrow's compost.