Companies have got to learn to eat change for breakfast.

For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.

The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.

In McKinsey's world, all of life is one of two things: strategy or organization.

You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.

Who, precisely, are your Dreamers? Are their Dreams in Technicolor? Do you allow their most Outrageous Dreams to be seen in public?

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.