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Mainstream customers have different requirements and are much more demanding [than early adopters].

The greater the demands on our attention, it seems, the poorer we get at resisting temptations.

The mind’s executive, the arbiter of where our focus goes, manages both the concentration that exploitation requires and the open focus that exploration demands.

The world is now changing at a rate at which the basic systems, structures, and cultures built over the past century cannot keep up with the demands placed on them.

Content creators have always been in high demand. They get promotions. They’re responsible for the Big Ideas. They’re regularly asked to speak at conferences and are featured in newspapers and magazines.

Unfortunately, sometimes the best thing for your people – and your career – is to cave in to these silly demands and do as you are told.

The best bosses learn when they can and should ignore the least important demands from others. But some demands can’t be avoided even though they have little, if any, impact on people or performance.

…leadership is demanding, and the people who can juggle multiple demands but remain focused on a group’s goals are the ones who are likely to succeed.

In the long term, where there is demand, supply usually configures itself to match it. It seems at least as likely that the media industry will conform to this and find new ways of delivering a total aggregated audience.

…research shows that consumers are demanding much more from their brands: a logo, a reason why, an emotional promise, a cultural belief – all these may no longer be enough.