He who is number one in swordsmanship, doesn t have to worry about the number two person, but rather about the person ignorant of swordsmanship but knowledgeable about gunpowder. There you learn how to deal with ambiguity, chance, and change. A good poker player calculates the odds and makes his bet, That s what you do in business every day of the week. You gotta' kick the system because it wants to be a bureaucracy. The quick and the dead.
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
All organizations are perfectly aligned to achieve their current level of performance. The organizations that will truly excel in the future will be the organizations that discover how to tap people's commitment and capacity to learn at all levels in an organization. Creative tension comes from seeing clearly where we want to be, our vision, and telling the truth about where we are - our current reality. The gap between the two generates a natural tension. If we do not anticipate and live for the future, we will live doomed to repeat the past.