In most cases, no matter what it is, if you measure it and reward it, people will try to excel at 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.

American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.

"Freedom, individualism, authenticity and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: Sustained success comes only when you take what's unique about you and figure out how to make it useful!"

Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.

I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.

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