Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.

Charisma is the result of effective leadership, not the other way around.

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

Innovation- any new idea-by definition will not be accepted at first. It takes repeated attempts, endless demonstrations, monotonous rehearsals before innovation can be accepted and internalized by an organization. This requires courageous patience.

If I had to reduce the responsibilities of a good follower to a single rule, it would be to speak truth to power.

Understand stakeholder symmetry: Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders.

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.