Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore.

"No" is always an easier stand than "Yes.

One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door.

To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.

A great idea is not enough.

Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist.

Too many people let others stand in their way and don't go back for one more try.

Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power.

Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter.

The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved.

Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world.

The Martha Stewart trial makes clear how far women have risen in the business world. America can be proud of our equal-opportunity prosecution and conviction.

Power is the ability to get things done.

I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.

The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc.

Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore.

The goal of winning is not losing two times in a row.

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.

I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.

Business requires understanding financial matters, but management is different from running the financial aspects of the business - it requires understanding complex systems, how they operate, the nature of organisations, what happens when people interact in groups and how to motivate and guide people.

Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.

Friendly people are caring people, eager to provide encouragement and support when needed most.

I see the level of sophistication and knowledge about business growing dramatically. Several decades ago, only a few companies thought about international business.

Nations need to understand their own strengths and weaknesses, and India's tradition of dissent and democratic debate is a positive aspect.

Organizational structures that allow divisions and departments to own their turf and people with long tenure to take root creates the same hardened group distinctions as Congressional redistricting to produce homogeneous voting blocs - all of which makes it easier to resist compromise, let alone collaboration.

Some social scientists say that in-group/out-group biases are hard-wired into the human brain. Even without overt prejudice, it is cognitively convenient for people to sort items into categories and respond based on what is usually associated with those categories: a form of statistical discrimination, playing the odds.

Throughout human history, people have developed strong loyalties to traditions, rituals, and symbols. In the most effective organizations, they are not only respected but celebrated. It is no coincidence that the most highly admired corporations are also among the most profitable.

Tribalism reflects strong ethnic or cultural identities that separate members of one group from another, making them loyal to people like them and suspicious of outsiders, which undermines efforts to forge common cause across groups.

We have a large pool of talented and educated women, and yet workplaces haven't necessarily changed to accommodate the reality of their lives.

When you fail at something, the best thing to do is think back to your successes, and try to replicate whatever you did to make them happen.

Our future will be shaped by the assumptions we make about who we are and what we can be.

The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.

The most radical thing we can do is connect people to one another. That starts conversations toward a vision for change.

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

Winning becomes easier over time as the cornerstones of confidence become habits.

People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways.

I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.

Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.

No man bosses me around, and no man ever will.

At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.

If we accept the rule of those who think they are the bosses and lords of Mexico, nothing will change for the people on the bottom.

Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

That D.C. grand jury investigation of Abramoff can't go on forever. Eventually the lawyers at the Public Integrity Section will go to their bosses with some decisions about just who they want to indict. That's when Al Gonzales will have to show his cards.

Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore.

The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.

The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.