Change your practices without abandoning your core values.

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

The main point is first get the right people on the bus (and wrong people off the bus) before you figure out where to drive it. The second key point is the degree of sheer rigor in people decisions in order to take a company from Good to Great.

Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people.

I am completely Socratic.

Smart people instinctively understand the dangers of entrusting our future to self-serving leaders who use our institutions, whether in the corporate or social sectors, to advance their own interests.

Not all time in life is equal. How many opportunities do you get to talk about what your life is going to add up to with people thinking about the same question?