Leaders relentlessly upgrade their team, using every encounter as an opportunity to evaluate, coach, and build self-confidence.

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

You are not a leader to win a popularity contest-you are a leader to lead.

The idea of let's all share the pain equally, or let's freeze salaries altogether - it's ass-backwards. It's absolutely ass-backwards.

If work is just going in every day and getting a check, it's an ugly life. When you can make work a meaningful purpose, you've hit the jackpot for people.

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.

Great leaders love to see people grow. The day you are afraid of them being better than you is the day you fail as a leader.