Measuring how hard your team is working by counting the number of hours they work or what time they get in and leave is how amateurs run companies.

Schools reward their students for a combination of intelligence, perseverance, and hard work - in the classroom and on the playing fields. But these metrics don't help kids understand that great grades are not a pass for a great life.

While the sector's had a great run, there are still a number of companies that are fundamentally undervalued. But as the industry continues to prosper, investors need to be extremely selective.

The stock market clearly values companies that can deliver disruptive innovation.

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

What's been missing from regions outside of Silicon Valley is a 'playbook.' In American football, a playbook contains a sports team's strategies and plays. It struck me that every region needs its own industry playbook on how to compete globally.