I believe in labeling things.

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.

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.

Medicine is a golden goose that has to be killed because every time the goose lays a golden egg, someone gets sick or dead.

All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.

A race between Perry and Christie would test whether Americans would rather be executed or eaten.

It's the hardest thing to come up with an hour of material that can consistently keep people laughing.

Look at the aerospace industry as it was just after the Kennedy talk. We were hiring like crazy. We were trying to get people graduated from college. Hey, you got to go to the program. We need you.

Well, I'm a former FBI agent.

Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it.

Workers work hard enough to not be fired, and owners pay just enough so that workers won't quit.

Some people think you are strong when you hold on. Others think it is when you let go.

Never chide with anger, but instruction.