We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness..

Some of my unhappiest moments have been in organizations. Somehow it seems to be quite respectable to do things in organizations that you would never….

A leader shapes and shares a vision, which gives point to the work of others..

The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms..

Change is only another word for growth, another synonym for learning..

The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be..

You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed..

To learn anything other than the stuff you find in books, you need to be able to experiment, to make mistakes, to accept feedback, and to try again. ….

The moment will arrive when you are comfortable with who you are, and what you are- bald or old or fat or poor, successful or struggling- when you do….

The sobering thought is that individuals and societies are not, in the end, remembered for how they made their money, but for how they spent it..

Villages are small and personal, and their inhabitants have names, characters, and personalities. What more appropriate concept on which to base our ….

Ordinary citizens are so accepting of what is going on, grumbling when their material interests were affected, but seemingly accepting the spiritual ….

A good team is a great place to be, exciting, stimulating, supportive, successful. A bad team is horrible, a sort of human prison..

In a knowledge economy, a good business is a community with a purpose, not a piece of property..

If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise..

There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts..

We need to have faith in the future to make sense of the present..

I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let….

A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems..

Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself..

Life can only be understood backwards but you have to live it forward. You can only do that by stepping into uncertainty and by trying, within this u….