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

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

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

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

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

Yes, business really does change. 400 years ago, corporations were formed by royal decree. 300 years ago, many countries were powered by slave labour, or its closest moral equivalent. 200 years ago, debtors didn't go bankrupt, they went to prison. 100 years ago - well, business is largely the same as it was a century ago. And that's exactly the problem. Business hasn't changed, but today's array of tectonic global shocks demands a different, radically better kind of business. Yesterday's corporations visibly cannot meet today's economic challenges.

The question you must answer isn't how to get ahead. It's how to go somewhere that matters. And have fun along the way.