Without doubt, there are lots of ways to measure the pulse of a business. But if you have employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow right, you can be sure your company is healthy and on the way to winning.

Getting candor right - with your reports, your peers, and your boss - is a skill that can make or break your career.

You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.

Strategy means making clear-cut choices about how to compete.

One of the ways we'll know that Work-Out has been successful is that my style of leadership will no longer be tolerated in this company.

I'm not perfect, but if there are any points given for caring about people with every fiber of your being and giving life all you've got every day, then I suppose I have a shot.

For a large organization to be effective, it must be simple.