Avoiding along some dimensions is easy. Create organization space and bring in some new talent so the innate cultural resistance is less material. Unfortunately, it's rarely that easy.

Think about how you will start and where you will go. Get the head with logic and the heart with visuals or stories. And think about your core customer and all the other stakeholders as well.

Checklists are really helpful ways to remind people around how to manage complicated tasks.

I think it is only in hindsight that you can determine whether something is a mistake or not.

Why do people do crossword puzzles? There's no reward for completing one, but some people just like the challenge.

I've never seen impeccable logic be sufficient to win both the heart and the mind.

I'm not very good at sitting still.

In my mind, so-called "cultures of innovation" really boil down to one word: curiosity.

In the early stages of innovation, your goal is to learn as much as you can as quickly as you can.

People who copy what exists copy a point-in-time artifact, and if you are managing the process correctly you are already hard at work on the next thing.

Hollywood Joohn Tatum? He does at least 6,000 sit ups and 10,000 pushups a day!

Rosa Hubermann was sitting on the edge of the bed with her husband's accordion tied to her chest. Her fingers hovered above the keys. She did not move. She didn't ever appear to be breathing.

No, I'm not one of those guys. I'd never get anything done if I rescued everyone who needed it. But I do like to help people I care about. That's why I'm here with you right now.

Giving up the center must not here be regarded as illogical. Was happiness no happiness because it endured for just a short time? One cannot always be happy.

Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?

You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.

If I can leave a single message with the younger generation, it is to lash yourself to the mast, like Ulysses if you must, to escape the siren calls of complacency and indifference.

The leaders in Washington have got to come together in a bipartisan way and do the right thing for the people who are being left behind. We cannot have an America that is only based on the wealthy.

Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.

You can't change laws without first changing human nature.

I laughed all the way through Love Story.