“The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.”

“Health care historically has been a very siloed field that's organized around medical specialties - urology, cardiac surgery, and so forth - and around the supply of these specialty services. The p...”

“I teach in the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Business School. And it's the best perch... because most of my work crosses boundaries.”

“Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It's not organized around the needs of the patient.”

“Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.”

“The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.”

“As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous.”

“You know what an illusion is? On this planet, one small cloud has the ability to block the entire sun.”

“Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.”

“It is so much easier to honour the leaders who are honourable.”

“Sometimes it's easier to tell ourselves a story.”

“It seems only easier when money is involved.”

“Stories are "how we organize the chaos of experience into the order we require just a carry-on." Joan Gideon”

“Time after time during the next six months, he would put me together again.”

“There are mornings when, from the first ray of light seized upon by the eye, and the first simple sounds that get inside the head, the heart is convinced that it is existing in rhythm to a kind of ...”