"Berlusconi gets away with everything because he thinks he's going to. That quality is difficult to teach and even harder to cure". Stanley Bing in Fortune Magazine, Dec 2009.

I guess you asked for it

Exchange between abrasive and wooden-legged TV show host Joe Pine and very long-haired musician Frank Zappa on Pine's show in the late 1960s:

Pine: I guess your long hair makes you a girl.

Zappa: I guess your wooden leg makes you a table.

Today's links

• Innovation: Why Failing Is OK. Or why 'Fail Fast Forward' should probably be the 6th criteria for successful innovation in organizations as laid out in my post here.