Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.

What business could be mature when you have economies with more than 2 billion people in India, China and Southeast Asia?

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.

Leading a big company means never allowing a company to take itself too seriously.

Does coaching work? Yes. Good coaches provide a truly important service. They tell you the truth when no one else will.

The binders, the charts, the grids may seem formidable, but the meetings themselves are built around informality, trust, emotion and humor.

The most important quality of leadership is intellectual honesty. The reality principle - the ability to see the world as it really is, not as you wish it were.