Business is a game, and as with all games, the team that puts the best people on the field and gets them playing together wins. It's that simple.

A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.

Business is a game, and as with all games, the team that puts the best people on the field and gets them playing together wins. It's that simple.

Any time there is change, there is opportunity. So it is paramount that an organization get energized rather than paralyzed.

Trying to get people to face reality and see the world the way it really is is an absolutely critical aspect of leadership, in my view.

Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.

My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.