When we have dealt with bin Laden and his network we will then broaden the campaign to go after other terrorists all around the world.

With vision only, you get no follow-through. With enforcers only, the vision is realized but leaves a lot of wreckage.

Each of us must work to become a hardheaded realist, or else we risk wasting our time and energy on pursuing impossible dreams. Yet constant naysayers pursue no less impossible dreams. Their fear and cynicism move nothing forward. They kill progress. How many cynics built empires, great cities, or powerful corporations?

Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.

In the military, we are also taught to only use one third of the available decision-making time, so that our subordinates have time to go through their own decision processes when they learn what we want them to do.

It's really not a number I'm terribly interested in.

Trust is the glue that holds an org together & the lubricant that moves it forward.