Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and goodwill. We trust those who have our best interest….

Discovery is the journey; insight is the destination..

There's a simple, but oft-neglected lesson here: to sustain success, you have to be willing to abandon things that are no longer successful..

A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance..

One doesn't have to be a Marxist to be awed by the scale and success of early-20th-cent ury efforts to transform strong-willed human beings into doci….

The goal is not to speculate on what might happen, but to imagine what you can make happen..

You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to..

Only stupid questions create wealth..

In the long term the most important question for a company is not what you are but what you are becoming..

Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you're on a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. Of course, there are other strategies. You can change r….

The problem with the future is that it is different, if you are unable to think differently, the future will always arrive as a surprise..

Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been opt….

Innovation is the fuel for growth. When a company runs out of innovation, it runs out of growth..

You can't use an old map to see a new land..

Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who's forging a bullet with your company's name on it. You've got one option now - to shoot first. You've….

All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing confo….

The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs..

We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation..

Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent..

The value of your network is the square of the number of people in it..

Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance..