As much as we think of performance management as numeric and thus perfectly quantifiable, it is as much a product of context and social science as the products we design and develop.

When you delegate work to the member of the team, your job is to clearly frame success and describe the objectives.

If the work requires smart, talented, creative people, then more than anything, you want to enable folks on the team to create.

Nothing called the "Gang Of Four" ends well.

Data is great, but strategy is better

A moment of disruption is where the conversation about disruption often begins, even though determining that moment is entirely hindsight.

A mouse has the precision that your finger can't approach.

The cloud-powered smartphone and tablet, as productivity tools, are transforming the world around us along with the implied changes in how we work to be mobile and more social.

The best work for creative folks on the team is when the problem is big and the solution escapes everyone.

Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world, and hardly a moment passes when we are not thinking, doing, or talking about these topics.

A place is not really a place without a bookstore.

WHAT A CONCUBINE SHOULD NEVER SAY:In your case, ED is not a man's name.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

Conceptions without experience are void; experience without conceptions is blind.

There's a lot of opportunities for scene-stealing if you're a dog.

Most of my influences are from the past.

I can't control my own income, I can't control my own destiny, I can't even control my own farm if I'm a farmer. This is not going to last.

Life is lived only once. And the less seriously the better.

I will form good habits and become their slaves.

Forever only takes its toll on some