You have to escape from management land and get in touch with your people.

Success is ultimately realized by people who make more good choices and recover quickly from their bad choices. Our personal and professional success depends on repeating good choices, day in and day out, and avoiding repetition of bad choices.

Your job is not to lower the bottom by adjusting for and accommodating the lowest-performing employees. You should be raising the top by recognizing and rewarding superstar behavior.

So much of life is about attitude and how we handle what life throws our way. Life is good - even when a situation appears to be the worst.

Trusted counselors, mentors and guides make an indelible mark on the lives they touch, and they provide the two ingredients to success in life--caring and sharing--that cannot be learned or purchased.

Take the time and energy to manage your boss the same way you manage your team.

If you want to make better use of your time, you need to be looking for the small increments of time ... a minute here, five minutes there, etc.