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.

If your clients aren't actively telling their friends about you, maybe your work isn't as great as you think it is.

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

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

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

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

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.