There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment – and you start to decline.

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry.

Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.

So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I’ll take the turbulent one.

There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment – and you start to decline.

Only the paranoid survive.