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Success depends upon mental agility, a desire and an ability to learn, adaptability, resilience, and creativity as much as hard work and sellable skills.

Our greatest fear is fear of success. When we are succeeding – that’s when panic strikes.

A professional does not take success or failure personally.

…to succeed, maybe even to survive, in the new environment, organizations and leaders must fundamentally change.

…feeling comfortable or dodging criticism should not be our measure of success… what really matters is succeeding.

The models of organizational success that dominated the twentieth century have their roots in the industrial revolution and, simply put, the world has changed.

In complex environments, resilience often spells success, while even the most brilliant engineered fixed solutions are often insufficient or counterproductive.

[Individual team members] must be collectively responsible for the team’s success and understand everything that responsibility entails.

…when creating an interactive product, confining specialists to a silo [is] stupid: high-level success depend[s] on low-level inefficiencies.

The emphasis on group success spurs cooperation, and fosters trust and purpose. But people cooperate only if they can see the interdependent reality of their environment.