I was never going to be one of Nobel prize winners.

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.

I believe in labeling things.

Everyone become a creation of their environment.

Endings are hard, but important. You have to have an end, so you can have another beginning.

They wanted her. They all loved her. And they wanted to keep her.

Everyone has their wings, it just so happens that mine are black.

Teach Scouts not how to get a living, but how to live.

'Waldo' was one episode I always felt I didn't quite crack. And weirdly, now that feels like one of the more prescient ones.

I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to take when you failed.

Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. Say I'm stronger than I thought I was

You cannot add more minutes to the day, but you can utilize each one to the fullest.

Any experience can be transformed into something of value. Everything depends on the way you look at things. You cannot have the success without the failures.