You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.

Every great leader has a generosity gene.

Take the middle 70 percent and tell them what they need to do to get into the top 20 percent.

There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.

The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders - people who not only have enormous amounts of energy, but who can energize those whom they lead.

Failing to differentiate among employees — and holding on to bottom-tier performers — is actually the cruelest form of management there is.

Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.