In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.

If you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.

For a large corporation to be effective, it must be simple. For an organization to be simple, its people must have self-confidence and intellectual self-assurance. Insecure managers create complexity, real leaders do not clutter.

Too many people believe that one big, public success will solve their self-confidence problems forever. That only happens in the movies. In real life, the opposite strategy is what works. Call it the small victo-ries approach. In time you will discover that all failing really does teach you something you needed to know- so you can regroup and stretch again, with ever more...nerve.

Real change agents comprise less than 10% of all business people.