All of management is about self-confidence

A company has only so much money and managerial time. Winning leaders invest where the payback is the highest. They cut their losses everywhere else.

As leaders, we owe it to every employee to let them know where they stand in the organization.

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.

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.

Some think that it is cruel or brutal to remove the bottom 10 percent of our people. It isn't. It's just the opposite. What I think is brutal and "false kindness" is keeping people around who aren't going to grow and prosper. There's no cruelty like waiting and telling people late into their careers that they don't belong - just when the options are limited and they're putting their children through college or paying off big mortgages.

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.