I say, 'Get me some poets as managers.' Poets are our original systems thinkers. They contemplate the world in which we live and feel obligated to interpret, and give expression to it in a way that makes the reader understand how that world runs. Poets, those unheralded systems thinkers, are our true digital thinkers. It is from their midst that I believe we will draw tomorrow's new business leaders."--Sidney Harman, CEO Multimillionaire of a stereo components company

Policy makers and business leaders take note: money matters. But often the best use of money as a motivator is to pay people enough to take the issue of money off the table__o that people can focus on the work rather than on the cash.

In the past, work was defined primarily by putting in time, and secondarily on getting results. "We need to flip that model,_ Ressler told me. __o matter what kind of business you__e in, it__ time to throw away the tardy slips, time clocks and outdated, industrial-age thinking.

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

Fall. Stand. Learn. Adapt.

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.