Contrary to widespread faith in "communication" and "knowledge transfer," information has a social life, and unless new insights are embedded in the social system they evaporate.

People are much more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking, than think their way into a new way of acting.

Nothing fails like success.

Knowledge does not advance practice. Rather practice advances knowledge.

Great companies make meaning. A company has a name, but its people give it meaning.

Leadership is making happen what wouldn't happen anyway and this always entails working at the edge of what is acceptable

The incremental approach to change is effective when what you want is more of what you've already got.

Organizations are, in the last analysis, interactions among people.

Discoveries from one community cannot be repackaged and provided to another as a silver bullet, That's a "best practice" rollout and it invariably evokes the immune rejection response.

The real objective isn't just "knowledge" or getting an 80-20 understanding of the situation. The overriding objective is engagement, creating a buzz, mobilizing people to take action.

My definition of success is control.

I'm uncomfortable trying to rush change of perception, except to the extent that I'm going to write a book.

The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the world as if it originated from an all-sufficient necessary cause.

One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.

Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.

I love fun movies that also have something to say. They tend to stay with me, always.

My own heart has to be under constant check by Jesus.

There's nothin' in life that's worth doin', if it cain't be done from a horse.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

I think if you are going to base your whole life on what you do on the golf course, you are up for a lot of ups and downs.