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No system designed by knowledge workers to give them the information they need for their work will ever be perfect. But, over the years, systems steadily improve.

A specialty-skill niche is rarely found by accident. In every single case, it results from a systematic survey of innovative opportunities.

…in the early stages of a new industry, a new market, or a new major trend, there is the opportunity to search systematically for the specialty-skill opportunity – and then there is usually time to develop a unique skill.

Organization design and structure require thinking, analysis, and a systematic approach.

Good systems provide the opportunity for people to travel great distances.

Unlocking the hidden potential in groups requires leadership practices, team processes, and systems that harness the capabilities and contributions of all their members.

Strictly in economic terms, increasing the supply of intellectuals, regardless of how much demand there may be for some, shows the productive power of current market systems.

We would be foolish to expect possessions to make us happy, or an economic system to care about our emotional state.

Any free-market system inevitably will have unequal results because individuals have unequal talents, exert unequal effort, and experience unequal luck.

…when people know each other well, they create an implicit joint memory system – a transactive memory system – which is based on an understanding about who is best suited to remember what kinds of things.