Leadership is making happen what wouldn't happen anyway and this always entails working at the edge of what is acceptable

People are much more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking, than think their way into a new way of acting.

Nothing fails like success.

Knowledge does not advance practice. Rather practice advances knowledge.

Great companies make meaning. A company has a name, but its people give it meaning.

The incremental approach to change is effective when what you want is more of what you've already got.

Organizations are, in the last analysis, interactions among people.

Contrary to widespread faith in "communication" and "knowledge transfer," information has a social life, and unless new insights are embedded in the social system they evaporate.

Discoveries from one community cannot be repackaged and provided to another as a silver bullet, That's a "best practice" rollout and it invariably evokes the immune rejection response.

The real objective isn't just "knowledge" or getting an 80-20 understanding of the situation. The overriding objective is engagement, creating a buzz, mobilizing people to take action.

I don't mind having to die now, for I see that he is the cause of my death is about to share the same fate.

I've never been a part of a film before that offers such a platform into real issues, that raises social awareness and has the potential to change things.

Your first ritual that you do during the day is the highest leveraged ritual, by far, because it has the effect of setting your mind, and setting the context, for the rest of your day.

For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent.

I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.

Good art is in the wallet of the beholder.

I hope to take advantage of the Netflix organism and see if there are ways to get in new material and see if there are ways to do deleted scenes.

Our whole energy remains blocked either in the past or in the future. When you withdraw all your energy from past and future a tremendous explosion happens.

Science and religion both teach that we are all interconnected, and thus interdependent. And at the very core, we are all One. But how do we live as if we know this?

If anything, we haven't changed much since we [with Venuse Williams] were kids. We really are the same people.