Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral. Failure to distinguish clearly between the two is ruinous. Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future. The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income. The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.
Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.
You must get the old furniture of what you know, think, and believe out before anything new can get in. Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it. Here is the very heart and soul of the matter. Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.