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

Before a leader can be accepted, let alone succeed, autonomous professionals must agree to be influenced by that person.

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

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

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

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.

No one can manage you if you don't give them permission to do so. But if you are interested in accomplishing as much as you are capable of, then I believe there are good reasons to grant that permission.