The only thing of real importance that leader do is to create and manage culture

In most organizational change efforts, it is much easier to draw on the strengths of the culture than to overcome the constraints by changing the culture.

We do not think and talk about what we see; we see what we are able to think and talk about.

Leadership is the ability to step outside the culture to start evolutionary change processes that are more adaptive.

The company ... has no rights to survive. But value systems and philosophies survive. People take them with them

Culture is not a surface phenomenon, it is our very care

I am defining leadership in terms of the role, not the position.

No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed.

On the street there is no tomorrow. There is only here and now and nothing else. And yesterday is just another day you’re trying to forget." - excerpt from: freefalling

My mother was an activist so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.

I've used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool... but that's just natural.

When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.

... a war always ends.

I’d rather lose myself in passion than lose my passion.

The brightest sun of the art always rises on the horizons of unhappiness.

Suspense is worst than disappointment.