In the most innovative companies there is a significantly higher volume of thank yous than in companies of low innovation..

Sports is a perfect activity in which to see streaks and cycles, organizational and otherwise, in action - and to watch confidence build or erode. Th….

The behavior of people and the culture of an organization are very different in winning streaks and losing streaks. But what both have in common is t….

John Akers once said that changing IBM's culture was more difficult than getting elephants to dance. Of course it's really difficult, as Lou Gerstner….

Passion for a goal doesn't guarantee success, but without it, you can't even begin..

Confidence makes you willing to try harder and attracts the kind of support from others that makes "winning" possible..

No" is always an easier stand than "Yes..

Leaders is the new organisation do not lack motivational tools, but the tools are different from those of traditional corporate bureaucrats. The new ….

Not everyone in an organization is in a position to accumulate power through competent performance because most people are just carrying out the ordi….

The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today,….

Time is a function of impact. The longer a book of mine has been in print, the greater its impact seems to be as people absorb and digest my ideas. I….

Money should never be separated from values. Detached from values it may indeed be the root of all evil. Linked effectively to social purpose it can ….

You can always buy something in English, you can't always sell something in English..

Power is America's last dirty word. It is easier to talk about money - and much easier to talk about sex - than it is to talk about power..

During the Boom Years, it was so easy to lose sight of basic values. For example, there was lots of nonsense said and written about the so-called "Ne….

Change is like putting lipstick on a bulldog. The bulldog's appearance hasn't improved, but now it's really angry..

The degree to which the opportunity to use power effectively is granted to or withheld from individuals is one operative difference between those com….

in most important ways, leaders of the future will need the traits and capabilities of leaders throughout history: an eye for change and a steadying ….

Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist..

You've no future unless you add value, create projects..

... people are capable of more than their organizational positions ever give them the tools or the time or the opportunity to demonstrate..