When employees underperform, a leader tells them so.

Trust is enormously powerful in a corporation. People won't do their best unless they believe they'll be treated fairly. The only way I know how to create that kind of trust is by laying out your values and then walking the talk. You've got to do what you say you'll do, consistently, over time.

We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.

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

Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.

Insecure managers create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use thick convoluted planning books and busy slides filled with everything they’ve known since childhood……. They worry that if they’re simple, people will think they’re simple minded. In reality, of course, it’s just the reverse. Clear, tough minded people are the most simple.

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