Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at.

But there's no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.

Organize as much as possible around teams, to achieve enhanced focus, task orientation, innovativeness, and individual commitment.

For me, reading is reading.

I found myself declaiming, full flower, for an hour on the "utmost importance and urgency" of Blogging, telling him in no uncertain terms that, especially in a high-end niche business, Blogging is "the premier way" to have "intimate conversations" with his Clients. Funny thing, I believe it!

Had Twitter been invented earlier, my books would have been shorter.

The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.