Do Not Tolerate Brilliant Jerks.

The Best Managers Figure Out How To Get Great Outcomes By Setting The Appropriate Context, Rather Than By Trying To Control Their People.

Technological Revolutions Are Very Hard To Predict. My Favourite Example Is Someone In 1850 Taking Care Of Horses As A Farrier. They Would Have Said, "look, Horses Have Been Part Of Human Existence For 5,000 Years. We Are Horse People. It's Permanent." But All Of A Sudden, The Internal Combustion Engine Comes Along And, With It, Oil Fields And Automobiles, Which Basically Replace The Horse Completely. So We Often Have These Long Periods Of Stability And Then A Sudden Inflection Point.

The Netflix Brand For Tv Shows Is Really All About Binge Viewing. The Ability To Get Hooked And Watch Episode After Episode.

When We Think About Online Learning, It's Such 'early Days.' Bill Gates Is A Wildly Smart Insightful Guy. Yet, Even A Guy As Smart And Insightful As That, 30 Years Ago Can Say Things Like,'who's Every Going To Need More Than 640k Of Memory?'

Something Will Eventually Replace The Internet. But It's Hard To Know What And When It Will Happen.