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

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.

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.

Apple makes computers and they have to be great at providing the product they promised every individual who wants to purchase from them. This is where they should spend the bulk of their energy.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

Taking a deep breath, I shake my head and find Judge staring at me. "Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans, " I say. "Once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.

You can never, never, ever go wrong eating more fruit.

At the meeting you behaves exactly as Marathi novelists of the last century tell is husbands do in sari shops.

I'm an emotional eater. When I get upset, my diet goes out the window.

Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist's own spiritual nature.

Nothing but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life.

Those who would be called tyrants cannot be called free men.

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.