We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies - in the minds of those closest to the work.

Get the best player because whether it's soccer or whether it's anything else the team with the best players wins. So focus your energy on getting the best and getting rid of the weakest.

Don't make the process harder than it is.

Without doubt, there are lots of ways to measure the pulse of a business. But if you have employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow right, you can be sure your company is healthy and on the way to winning.

When there's change, there's opportunity.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

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.