There are not enough forums where institutions invite their workers to share their failures in a constructive way so the organization can move forward.

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.

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.

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.

The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

A kindergarten teacher is a woman who knows how to make little things count.

It's no good crying over spilt milk; all we can do is bail up another cow

I have a few business ideas (that I'm going to advertise in High Times, amongst other places), and one of them is a service in which I offer to eat and describe pork to kosher people.

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.

Fashion faux pas should be celebrated. I enjoy them because it means we're not all clones.

If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.

I came from such a simple origin, without any great privilege, and I would say I also wanted to make a mark. It wasn't until I was about 15 that I appeared in a race.

Half the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious dogma.

An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.