Knowledge does not advance practice. Rather practice advances knowledge.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sorry has got to be the most over-used cliched get-out clause in the history of mankind. Tossed out flippantly without any real meaning or substance.

The hardware business is all about per-unit manufacturing cost and functionality. The services business is less asset-intensive and more dependent on people.

He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved.

Never give power of attorney.

No matter what happens, I'm loud, noisy, earthy and ready for much more living.

Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.

Life is easy greediness adds complexity

But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.

Your typical Six-year-old is a paradoxical little person, and bipolarity is the name of his game

There’s a morning when presence comes over your soul. You sing like a rooster in your earth-colored shape. Your heart hears and, no longer frantic, begins to dance.