As I was coming up in business, screwing up was not an option in any form.

As a sensitive and highly intuitive person in the command-and-control corporate world, I always felt miscast.

The phrases and language used everyday in an organization can in fact affect the way your team makes decisions and conducts themselves.

You can't mobilize people and connect with them authentically when they can't see the true you.

Leadership is not about sitting and presiding, it's about a going somewhere. To be buoyant, you must not only ignite passion around a common quest, you must also mobilize your team to take a journey with you toward a common destination, or what I call a "real ambition."

As I was coming up in business, screwing up was not an option in any form.

Once you demonstrate to your team that you put them on the same plane of priority as yourself, you will create an environment, and a culture that will make your entire organization flourish.