The art of managing and leading comes down to a simple thing. Determining and facing reality about people, situations, products, and then acting decisively and quickly on that reality. Think how many times we have procrastinated, hoped it would get better. Most of the mistakes you've made have been through not being willing to face into it, straight in the mirror that reality you find, then taking action on it. That's all managing is, defining and acting. Not hoping, not waiting fro the next plan. Not rethinking it. Getting on with it. Doing it. Defining and doing it.

Take the middle 70 percent and tell them what they need to do to get into the top 20 percent.

I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.

In the future, those who are not coaches will not be promoted.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.