“The parents of teenagers would love to have a car that won't go very f...” — Clayton M. Christensen Quote

The parents of teenagers would love to have a car that won't go very far or go very fast. They could just cruise around the neighborhood, drive it to school, see their friends, plug it in overnight.

Management is getting people together to figure out how to transform inputs into outputs. In the process of figuring out the process of how people work together, you've got to figure out who's got what responsibilities, and how do they work together.

The financial doctrines so zealously followed by American companies might help optimize capital when it is scarce. But capital is abundant. If we are to see our economy really grow, we need to encourage migratory capital to become productive capital - capital invested for the long-term in empowering innovations.

The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way we've taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when it's too late.

I probably would do over the Tom Cruise interview because I've thought of so many things I would have said in hindsight.

Super Cruise will follow the lanes of the road, follow the speed you set, and you can be hands-off driving on an expressway.

Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.

I hate to sound like Julie the cruise director but it's people that I think about all the time.

I think it's quite tough for people like Tom Cruise where you can never really get away from being Tom Cruise in something. You're so familiar to people and people know so much about your life.