A good leader remains focused. Controlling your destination is better than being controlled by it

Change before you have to.

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

Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.

Wright is a visionary with a great strategic mind, and he's a strong business leader with outstanding people skills, ... He's a terrific guy and will be a key force in guiding the company's future growth.

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

For a large corporation to be effective, it must be simple. For an organization to be simple, its people must have self-confidence and intellectual self-assurance. Insecure managers create complexity, real leaders do not clutter.