We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts, and cultivate those.

Reducing the economic gap may be impossible without also addressing the gap in empathy.

We need to re-create boundaries. When you carry a digital gadget that creates a virtual link to the office, you need to create a virtual boundary that didn't exist before.

Great leaders, the research shows, are made as they gradually acquire, in the course of their lives and careers, the competencies that make them so effective. The competencies can be learned by any leader, at any point.

One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.

The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them.

It is difficult to spread the contagion of excitement without having a sense of purpose and direction.