If I were running a company today, I would have one priority above all others: to acquire as many of the best people as I could. I'd put off everything else to fill my bus. Because things are going to come back. My flywheel is going to start to turn. And the single biggest constraint on the success of my organization is the ability to get and to hang on to enough of the right people.

The only way to deliver to the people who are achieving is to not burden them with the people who are not achieving.

Our findings do not represent a quick fix, or the next fashion statement in a long string of management fads, or the next buzzword of the day, or a new 'program' to introduce. No! The only way to make any company visionary is through a long-term commitment to an eternal process of building the organization to preserve the core and stimulate progress.

The only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive.

The people who don't have a great life are the ones who settle for a good one.

I am not failing - I am growing! Do you have the ability to reframe failure as growth in order to achieve your goals?

That good is the enemy of great is not just a business problem. It is a human problem.