I was frustrated for a long time with my colleagues in the business school world and with so many management authors who didn't really see themselves as innovators. They were glorified journalists.

We were created not to be another school of management. San Diego already has schools of management in business. They do a fine job at what they're supposed to do, but it isn't why the industry in San Diego -- and beyond -- wanted us to exist.

I didn't go to a business school. I didn't really study it.

I was at my nephew’s graduation from Harvard Business School,

You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.

I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.