Americans just love convening. They are a convention-happy country and they love to get together to talk.

The difference between a pebble and a mountain lies in whom you ask to move it.

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

In a war, no matter the outcome of a certain skirmish or battle, the winner is the party whose attitudes, behaviors and preoccupations come to dominate the postwar landscape. By this measure, the outcome of the gender wars, if wars they were, is clear: women won.

Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time.

Obviously, you have to know what you need now and what you will soon need, then hire or promote from within to meet those needs.

We live with them every day, and they come so easily to us that they cease to be precious.