Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

If you have a charismatic cause you don't need to be a charismatic leader.

It occurs to me,Jim,that you spend too much time trying to be interesting. Why don't you invest more time being interested?" Collin's advice from John Gardner that he took to heart.

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.

Change your practices without abandoning your core values.

Focusing solely on what you can potentially do better than any other organization is the only path to greatness.

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