You have no right to be a leader if someone who works for you doesn't know where they stand.

Leading a big company means never allowing a company to take itself too seriously.

Globalization is now no longer an objective but an imperative, as markets open and geographic barriers become increasingly blurred and even irrelevant.

Managers often hold on to resisters because of a specific skill set or because they've been around for a long time. Don't.

I am often asked if leaders are born or made. The answer, of course, is both. Some characteristics, like IQ and energy, seem to come with the package. On the other hand, you learn some leadership skills, like self-confidence, at your mother's knee, and at school, in academics and sports. And you learn others at work-trying something, getting it wrong and learning from it, or getting it right and gaining the self-confidence to do it again, only better.

People aren't the same. Business is, in my opinion, all about the team that fields the best players. It's not about an idea. An idea goes away. Somebody catches up with it. It's not about a widget.

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.