Strategy is simply resource allocation. When you strip away all the noise, that's what it comes down to. Strategy means making clear cut choices about how to compete. You cannot be everything to everybody, no matter what the size of your business or how deep its pockets.

The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.

Any company trying to compete...must figure out a way to engage the mind of every employee.

You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.

Culture drives great results.

Not surprisingly, work-life moaners tend to be a phenomenon of below-average performers.

An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.