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

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.

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

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

Professional is not a label you give yourself - it's a description you hope others will apply to you.

A true professional feels no pressure to run up a client's bill, knowing that any reduction in revenues caused by being efficient will be more than recompensed by the reputation earned for being honest and trustworthy.