Your goal over time is to use less red ink every day.

Possibly the most important thing you do is actually edit the team.

The people that work with you should generally come up with their own initiatives.

Building a company is basically taking all the irrational people you know... Putting them in one building and then living with them 12 hrs a day at least.

Don't accept the excuse of complexity.

Don't accept the excuse of complexity. A lot of people will tell you, this is too challenging, this is too complicated, yeah well I know other people simplify but that's not for me, this is a complicated business. They're wrong. You can change the world in 140 characters.

The agenda should be crafted by the employee who reports to the manager not the manager.