Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

An organization‘s success has more to do with clarity of shared purpose, common principles and strength of belief in them than to assets, expertise, operating ability or management competence, important as they may be.

Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don’t do them to others, ever.

Failure is not to be feared. It is from failure that most growth comes.

Make another list of things done for you that you loved. Do them for others, always.

The essence of community, its heart and soul, is the non-monetary exchange of value; things we do and share because we care for others, and for the good of the place.

Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality.

If you think you can’t, why think

Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the world in weeks.

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.

If you don’t understand that you work for your mislabeled ‘subordinates‘, then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

If you’re in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts.

Particularity and separability are infirmities of the mind, not characteristics of the universe.

The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.

Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership – it’s bookkeeping

If you don’t understand that you work for your mislabeled ‘subordinates,’ then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, to utilize, to store, to transform, and to transmit information.

Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

It won‘t do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require.

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.

It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.

The most abundant, least used, and most abused resource in the world is human spirit and ingenuity.

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior.