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

Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.

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

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

I don't see Merced appearing on a mainstream desktop inside of a decade.

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

If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in.