I will not accept your guidance and critique unless you are supportive and nurturing. On the other hand, you need to be continually demanding.

Your task as a leader is to help others to succeed, not to strive only for your own success. If I don't trust your motives, nothing else will matter -because my primary concern is your integrity.

More than any other factor, it is the people we have to deal with that determine the quality of our work lives.

Left untended, knowledge and skill, like all assets, depreciate in value surprisingly quickly.

Stop teaching students that they are the best and the brightest.

You cannot and should not try to please everyone. Make sure that the right people like you, and it will be expected that others will not. That's how the world works.

Focus on being the best you can at what you want to do.