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.

If work is just going in every day and getting a check, it's an ugly life. When you can make work a meaningful purpose, you've hit the jackpot for people.

Great leaders love to see people grow. The day you are afraid of them being better than you is the day you fail as a leader.

Failing to differentiate among employees — and holding on to bottom-tier performers — is actually the cruelest form of management there is.

The quality of an idea does not depend on its altitude in the organization...An idea can be from any source. So we will search the globe for ideas. We will share what we know with others to get what they know. We have a constant quest to raise the bar, and we get there by constantly talking to others.

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

Common mission trap for companies: trying to be all things to all people at all times.