You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.

A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be

People aren't the same. Business is, in my opinion, all about the team that fields the best players. It's not about an idea. An idea goes away. Somebody catches up with it. It's not about a widget.

One of the ways we'll know that Work-Out has been successful is that my style of leadership will no longer be tolerated in this company.

Face reality as it is, not as it was, or as you wish it were. Be candid with everyone. Don't manage, lead. Change before you have to. If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete. Control your own destiny, or someone else will.

No one is guaranteed a job in this.