No work is "most important." Or, put differently, all work is important but work done poorly becomes most important.

I agree with Stephen Covey that too many people spend too much time on doing what is urgent rather than on doing what is import.

When we forgive, the slave we free is ourselves.

All connections matter, but the people you depend upon matter most.

Lack of respect for the worker. This nourishes disconnection, fear, anger, phoniness, and all the bad stuff that impedes excellence.

We live in a paradox: connected electronically but disconnected interpersonally. However, when you recognize the problem, you can take steps to correct it. You can create an emotionally connected environment anywhere if you try hard enough.

Modern loneliness is an extraverted loneliness, in which the person is surrounded by many people and partakes of much communication but feels unrecognized and more alone and, although connected technically, isolated and even estranged emotionally.