Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.

Leadership (according to John Sculley) revolves around vision, ideas, direction, and has more to do with inspiring people as to direction and goals than with day-to-day implementation. A leader must be able to leverage more than his own capabilities. He must be capable of inspiring other people to do things without actually sitting on top of them with a checklist.

The capacity for "uncontaminated wonder," ultimately, is what distinguishes the successful from the ordinary, the happily engaged players of whatever era from the chronically disappointed and malcontent. Therein lies a lesson for geeks, geezers, and the sea of people who fall in between.

Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity.

The learning person looks forward to failure or mistakes. The worst problem in leadership is basically early success.