Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.

I happen to hold a bachelor of science degree in geology... And my greatest contribution to the field of science is that I never entered it.

My own experience is that you get as much information as you can and then you pay attention to your intuition, to your informed instinct.

Bahrain is moving at one pace, Morocco another, Qatar at another, Kuwait at yet another. And we are there to assist our friends.

In the army we are drilled into execution and then supervision, to make sure everything goes the way you planned it. But there is another thing that we do in the military, that I think perhaps isn't done enough in corporate life: As soon as you have made that decision, you start on the contingency planning. Because there is, as we like to say, a thinking, breathing enemy out there, who is not going to let you do just what you want.

Actually, there is no more important task for a leader than to pick people. To make sure you have the very best people working for you.

Trust is the essence of Leadership.