Do first things first, and second things not at all. - Peter Drucker

To supply data is not enough. The data have to be integrated with strategy, they have to test a company’s assumptions, and they must challenge a company’s current outlook.

The first secret of effectiveness is to understand the people you work with and depend on so that you can make use of their strengths, their ways of working, and their values. Working relationships are as much based on the people as they are on the work.

To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.