Ambiguity is not, today, a lack of data, but a deluge of data.

When business leaders talk about the next quarter, they ought to sometimes be talking about the next quarter century.

A vision inspires, aligns, and directs. it says to other people, “here is what I am up to, come and play in my sandbox!

We have minds that are equipped for certainty, linearity and short-term decisions, that must instead make long-term decisions in a non-linear, probabilistic world.

Strategic coherence is more important than strategic perfection.

Mindfulness requires being a beginner. Setting absurdly high-standards, and being unwilling to be a novice, are the joint enemies of personal progress and change. Nobody benchpresses 100 kilos the first time they enter a gym.

Although science is not easy in complex human systems, we cannot afford to throw our hands in the air and give up. It may take decades, but it is a game worth playing and winning.

Leaders need to sacrifice “power-over” to get “power-to”.

Mindfulness promises a great number of desirable benefits, and is based on much more solid research than many competing ideas on how to change people.

Too few leaders have the emotional fortitude to take responsibility for failure.

Leaders need to correct for cognitive biases the way a sharpshooter corrects for wind velocity or a yachtsman corrects for the tide.

Don’t let Deepak Chopra manage your change program.

gut” when they should be more rational.

The best way to encourage out of the box thinking is to draw the box correctly in the first place.

Green light, STOP – if you want to see where you are taking the most risk, look where you are making the most money.

The essence of extended rationality is to know when you are being irrational.

Yesterday’s decision-making strategies are ill-equipped to deal with petabyte information flows.

We need leadership books that offer information as well as inspiration. Pop leadership is one of the most destructive forces today.

It is time to euthanize change management.

Compared to ecosystems and some species, corporations are very fragile entities indeed.

Pop leadership abuts pop psychology, and is very destructive. In no other serious domain of human endeavor (surgery, playing the violin) is the subject distilled down to nice-sounding aphorisms that mean nothing.

The notion of “business as usual” is a harmful myth.

Most businesses would profit greatly from just applying Change Management 101 well.

Business is the most important institution on the planet for furthering human flourishing.

Psychological pseudoscience dies hard, especially when there are commercial interests at stake.

Many of the cataclysmic leadership failures were failures of rationality. The pendulum of leadership development needs to swing back toward the rational: strategy, creativity, foresight, decision-making, and analytics.

Be the author, not the reader, of your own life.

Feeling entitled is the opposite of feeling grateful. Gratitude opens the heart, entitlement closes it.

21st century leaders will be growers, not knowers.

As life progresses, baggage can accumulate. For a while, things can be swept under the rug, but the wait of unfinished business eventually catches up.

A life is a terrible thing to waste. Reach your potential. Thrive.