Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time

You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.

Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you're actually doing every day.

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

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.

If the manager really is the problem, try to get reassigned elsewhere in the organization or start looking for one in which you can play to your strengths.

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