Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you.

Those fortunate enough to find or create a practical intersection of the three circles have the basis for a great work life.

Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.

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.

Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.

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

The critical question is not whether you'll have luck, but what you do with the luck that you get.