Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.

The first step is to recognize what you need to know and why you need to know it.

The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.

Teach your children how to identify their own strengths and challenge them to contribute these strengths to others.

CEOs hate variance. It's the enemy. Variance in customer service is bad. Variance in quality is bad. CEOs love processes that are standardized, routinized, predictable. Stamping out variance makes a complex job a bit less complex.

As a general rule, people tend to do best what they enjoy doing most.

Companies don't have one culture. They have as many as they have supervisors or managers. You want to build a strong culture? Hold every manager accountable for the culture that he or she builds.