The joy of disruption comes from accepting that we all live in a temporal state.

You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.

Competition is created from within, when you make a conscious decision to demand more from yourself.

A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

Give today to get better tomorrow.

It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.

Leadership management is the art of making problems enjoyable and interesting to deal with, by allowing the team to have the power and accountability to resolve them.

The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn’t work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up.

The Swedes have coined the term ‘management by perkele’ to portray the Finnish managerial approach. Instead of collectively pondering all the possible alternatives and letting every member of the staff from the cleaner to the...

Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.

Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.

When you are on top of your game you don’t have to talk about it, the world will do that for you.

Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.

whenever we stop doing something, we start doing anything

At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic.

Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants.

A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders — management skills.

Insight and drive are all the skills you need. Everything else can be hired.

Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.

To foster a solution mindset, tell employees that you are not interested in who or what caused the problem. You are only interested in hearing how we plan to go beyond the problem.

The business world is littered with the fossils of companies that failed to evolve. Disrupt or be disrupted. There is no middle ground.

If all you are doing is spending time with the struggling members of your church and you are not building proactively into your church’s culture, and you are being shortsighted and limiting the effectiveness of...

You’ll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.

There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others’ disruptive breakthroughs.

Leadership is service, not position.

Data has no ego and makes an excellent co-pilot.

If you don’t know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

Some things that seem better done tomorrow would be best done today

The customer is always right…even when they’re wrong.

Adapt and adopt the peer-to-peer and open source models to wider implementation in organisations

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?

A manager is not a successful manager until he succeeds in managing managers successfully.

CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.

Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering opportunity.

Never be SARCASTIC. A clever remark might gain you a few laughs but the butt of your remarks will be offended and will remember you for it.

Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the content is controlled by everyone and no one at the same time.

Leadership is the influence of a person(s) on another person(s) which guides their efforts in a specific direction, with more purpose, clarity, and unity than they would have held on their own.

The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

Security doesn’t rob ambition; the illusion of security robs ambition.

Amongst many qualities of a true leader, he is a successful manager who has mastered the art of people management.

Smart entrepreneurs learn that they must fail often and fast.

You can truly have it all, just not all at the same time.

I say, ‘Get me some poets as managers.’ Poets are our original systems thinkers. They contemplate the world in which we live and feel obligated to interpret, and give expression to it in a way...

The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.

The smart strategist allows strategy to be shaped by events. Good reactions can make great strategy. Strategy involves competition of goals, and the risk is the difference between those goals and the ability of the...

To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.

Disruption isn’t about what happens to you, it’s about how you respond to what happens to you.