All leaders make mistakes. They are a part of life. Successful leaders recognize their errors, learn from them, and work to correct their faults.

You never display your character more clearly than when you speak about the character of others.

I would rather be viewed by the reader as I'm just taking a journey with you, and here's what I'm learning, what are you learning? Oh, you do this better than me. Than to be viewed as kind of like an authority.

Failing forward is the ability to get back up after you've been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction.

Few things build a person up like affirmation. According to Webster’s New World Dictionary, Third College Edition (Simon and Schuster, 1991), the word affirm comes from ad firmare, which means “to make firm.” So when you affirm people, you make firm within them the things you see about them. Do that often enough, and the belief that solidifies within them will become stronger than the doubts they have about themselves.

Why worry about things you can't control when you can keep yourself busy controlling the things that depend on you?

Every person has seeds of greatness within, even though they may currently be dormant.