Many of the cataclysmic leadership failures were failures of rationality. The pendulum of leadership development needs to swing back toward the rational: strategy, creativity, foresight, decision-making, and analytics.

Ambiguity is not, today, a lack of data, but a deluge of data.

Yesterday’s decision-making strategies are ill-equipped to deal with petabyte information flows.

Leaders need to sacrifice "power-over" to get "power-to".

Strategic coherence is more important than strategic perfection.

Leaders need to correct for cognitive biases the way a sharpshooter corrects for wind velocity or a yachtsman corrects for the tide.

Compared to ecosystems and some species, corporations are very fragile entities indeed.

Green light, STOP - if you want to see where you are taking the most risk, look where you are making the most money.

The notion of "business as usual" is a harmful myth.