Good-to-great companies set their goals and strategies based on understanding; comparison companies set their goals and strategies based on bravado.

Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity...are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.

The secret to a successful retirement is to find your retirement sweet spot. The sweet spot is where your passions, what you do best, and what people will pay you to do overlap.

You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.

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?

If you have more than three priorities then you don't have any.

Resilency, not perfection, is the signature of greatness.