The value decade is upon us. If you can't sell a top-quality product at the world's lowest price, you're going to be out of the game.

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

Nothing is worse than the person in their 40s who says, 'I'm not going to learn this.' 'I don't carry an iPad.' That will label you and put you right in the corner. Some people do it as a badge of honor. I've seen them myself, they walk around bragging [about not knowing much about technology].

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.

What Sam Walton did was to go into one of the most mature industries of all and find a way to make it grow, grow, grow, double-digit, month after month, year after year. He did it by innovation, customer focus, and above all, speed.

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