Want to impress others? Talk about your successes. Want to impact others? Talk about your failures.

If you want to be a sharp thinker, be around sharp people.

Hope is not strategy. Hope fits with vision, but we must have a strategy and a process to make our vision become a reality.

Knowing how to do a job is the accomplishment of labor - showing others is the accomplishment of the teacher - making sure the work is done by others is the accomplishment of the manager - inspiring others to do better work is the accomplishment of the leader.

A leader who produces other leaders multiples their influences.

There is a world of difference between a person who has a big problem and a person who makes a problem big.

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.