I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation.

Neotony is a metaphor for the quality of life - the gift - that keeps the fortunate of whatever age focused on all the marvelous undiscovered things to come.

Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.

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

Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.

Walt Disney, of all people, did a good job of describing his own netony. "People who have worked with me say I am 'innocence in action,'" he wrote. "They say I have the innocence and unselfconsciousness of a child. Maybe I have. I still look at the world with uncontaminated wonder."

Keep reminding people of what's important and that their fates are correlated.