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

It's probably your fiercest critics - not your compatriots - who have the sharpest, most resonant insights.

You get one life. And if you make the mistake of choosing a profession that doesn't enrich anybody but you, you wont even live that one

In the age of strategy, advantage flowed from owning resources. In the age of wisdom, it flows from seeding and connecting them.

Let’s summarize. What is awesomeness? Awesomeness happens when thick — real, meaningful — value is created by people who love what they do, added to insanely great stuff, and multiplied by communities who are delighted and inspired because they are authentically better off. That’s a better kind of innovation, built for 21st century economics.

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

Each and every one of us is a leader. Some of us just don't know it yet.