Cash is king. Get every drop of cash you can get and hold onto it.

Celebrating creates an atmosphere of recognition and positive energy. Imagine a team winning the World Series without champagne spraying everywhere. And yet companies win all the time and let it go without so much as a high five. Work is too much a part of life not to recognize moments of achievement. Make a big deal out of them. If you don't, no one will.

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

If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.

As a leader, you have no right to have any employee wonder how they fit in and where they are going.

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

Too many people believe that one big, public success will solve their self-confidence problems forever. That only happens in the movies. In real life, the opposite strategy is what works. Call it the small victo-ries approach. In time you will discover that all failing really does teach you something you needed to know- so you can regroup and stretch again, with ever more...nerve.