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.

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.

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

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.

Healing is not a process, it is a choice. Nothing can heal your scars until you decide to.

Truth is such a rare thing it is delightful to tell it,

Let the past drift away with the water.

When you lack interest in the case the job will very likely lack skill and diligence in the performance.

Enemies' promises were made to be broken.

You achieve long-term success step by step. Try to achieve your goals one at a time, like you do target practice.

In principle the great religions of the world do not differ as much as they appear to.

As soon as the first person wrote about me, the articles became just blatant, all-out lies. I consider it slander. If I cared more, I'd kill them.

Naturally we need black men to give this movie serious credibility.

I've never been very fully employed either.