No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.

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

Globalization has taken a hit in that there is some sand in the gears because most of us have supply chains that are all over the world that we've had to lengthen.

The most important quality of leadership is intellectual honesty. The reality principle - the ability to see the world as it really is, not as you wish it were.

People aren't the same. Business is, in my opinion, all about the team that fields the best players. It's not about an idea. An idea goes away. Somebody catches up with it. It's not about a widget.

I wanted to change the rules of engagement, asking for more- from fewer. I was insisting that we had to have only the best people...If you wanted excellence, at a minimum, the ambience had to reflect excellence.

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.