I believe that only a subset of us is meant to lead. The rest want to follow.

MBA programs are underwritten by large companies and they succeed at producing future employees of large companies. In that regard, they are doing exactly what they are supposed to be doing.

I also believe that at a critical point (more than six people?), that collective wisdom turns into group think.

I think small groups have more collective wisdom than an individual.

Success doesn’t always look like what we think it looks like.

The disruption caused by globalization and technology (what Tom Friedman calls hyperconnectedness) will be around for the rest of our professional lives.

For example, I wear clothes I buy at trendy shops because I don't care much about clothing. If someone wants to create a trend around clothing, I'll happily and blindly follow.

There are not enough forums where institutions invite their workers to share their failures in a constructive way so the organization can move forward.

In companies, there are three activities that should be labeled better. First there is the "CORE" which is the thing the company does that its customers pay it to do.

However, there's nothing more inspiring than a company that does solve problems and those problems are captured as part of a larger story.

I believe in labeling things.

Gabriel smiled and his thumb grazed her cheek. She thought for a terrifying moment that he was going to kiss her

Now the choices you make are not about finding your path. Rather, they are choices to open the path you have found.

All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.

I strode toward Mr. Coffee with lust in my eyes. We'd had a thing for quite some time now Mr. Coffee and I.

We have put over £2bn in the last three years into counter-terrorism and we are developing the electronic border surveillance and identity cards

I look completely like my mum. She's very foreign, very Jewish.

If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?

A non-event ... is better to write about than an event, because with a non-event you can make up the meaning yourself, it means whatever you say it means.

It is hard to find something where you can go off as much as I do in stand-up, but I think stand-up allows me that freedom where you can really go off and have a good time.

Allah does not withhold to withhold. Remaking the heart was the objective. To remake it, He sometimes breaks it first.