The 10 or 12 artists I have known really well all my life are at least as competitive as professional athletes. They may express it in slightly different terms, but you look at the Jackson Pollocks et al., and they are as interested in wall space in the galleries as Joe Montana is in the percentage of completed passes. So the notion that symphonic conducting, or stage play, or pure art, is not a competitive business is real bullshit.

You have to stand out if you want to move up.

We often hear that the digital age has resulted in a devaluing of time, space, and place. But I wonder if theseclaims are exaggerated.

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

South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.

Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.

Nearly 100% of innovation-from business to politics-is inspired not by "market analysis" but by people who are supremely pissed off by the way things are.