How can you motivate yourself to continue to follow a leader when he appears to be going around in circles?

There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.

If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry

You have to pretend you're 100 percent sure. You have to take action; you can't hesitate or hedge your bets. Anything less will condemn your efforts to failure.

The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.

Most companies don't die because they are wrong; they die because they don't commit themselves. They fritter away their momentum and their valuable resources while attempting to make a decision. The greatest danger is standing still.

Assume any career move you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back.