Directing attention toward where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership.

Our brain comes hard-wired with an urge to play, one that hurls us into sociability. A child's play both demands and creates its own safe space, one in which she can confront threats, fears, and dangers, but always come through whole. Play offers a child a natural way to manage feared separations or abandonment, rendering them instead opportunities for mastery and self-discovery.

The best leaders don’t know just one style of leadership—they’re skilled at several, and have the flexibility to switch between styles as the circumstances dictate.

If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.

Scheduling down time as part of your routine is hard but worth it, personally, even professionally.

Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically, almost as powerful as those to our very survival.

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.