Like A Child Star Whose Fame Fades

Strategy Is, Above All Else, The Search For Above Average Returns.

Influence Is Like Water. Always Flowing Somewhere.

Somewhere Out There Is A Bullet With Your Company's Name On It. Somewhere Out There Is A Competitor, Unborn And Unknown, That Will Render Your Strategy Obsolete. You Can't Dodge The Bullet – You're Going To Have To Shoot First. You're Going To Have To Out-innovate The Innovators.

In An Ideal World, An Individual's Institutional Power Would Be Correlated Perfectly With His Or Her Value-add. In Practice, This Is Seldom The Case.

Most Of Us Do More Than Subsist. From The Vantage Point Of Our Ancestors, We Live Lives Of Almost Unimaginable Ease. Here Again, We Have Innovation To Thank.