Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.

Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.

The challenge is not just to build a company that can endure; but to build one that is worthy of enduring.

We must reject the idea... Well-intentioned, but dead wrong... That the primary path to greatness in the social sectors is to become "more like a business." Most businesses... Like most of anything else in life... Fall somewhere between mediocre and good.

The x factor of a great leader is humility combined with will.

The start of the New Year is a perfect time to start a stop doing list and to make this the cornerstone of your New Year resolutions, be it for your company, your family or yourself. It also is a perfect time to clarify your three circles, mirroring at a personal level the three questions... 1) What are you deeply passionate about? 2) What are you are genetically encoded for - what activities do you feel just "made to do"? 3) What makes economic sense - what can you make a living at?

Don't be interesting - be interested.