Yesterday's corporations visibly cannot meet today's economic challenges.

Follow your passion, we’re often told. But how do you find your passion? Let me put it another way: what is it that breaks your heart about the world? It’s there that you begin to find what moves you. If you want to find your passion, surrender to your heartbreak. Your heartbreak points towards a truer north — and it’s the difficult journey towards it that is, in the truest sense, no mere passing idyllic infatuation, but enduring, tempestuous passion.

The biggest mistake you can make is listening to people who've given up on their dreams telling you to give up on yours.

The direction worth going in isn't up, down, forward, or backward. It's towards. And beyond.

We're richer, but that wealth doesn't reflect durable, authentic economic value - which is hitting fast diminishing returns. The growth that we're pursuing is neither sustainable - nor is it, in many ways, real growth at all. Boardrooms from finance to autos to energy to pharma to fashion have learned that the hard way.

Leadership simply begins with the courage to be yourself. So everyone else can be, too.

Remember to be awesome.