I need to reach out to people who work for small to mid-sized companies, and help them identify and apply their strengths at work.

Great leaders rally people to a better future.

Google and Facebook, each in their own way, have revolutionized the delivery of advertising based on search and social networking, creating a sort of anti-Spam: targeted, relevant ads that a consumer might actually welcome rather than spurn.

A note of caution: We can never achieve goals that envy sets for us. Looking at your friends and wishing you had what they had is a waste of precious energy. Because we are all unique, what makes another happy may do the opposite for you. That's why advice is nice but often disappointing when heeded.

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

People quit managers, not jobs.

You shouldn't take pride in your natural talents any more than you should take pride in your sex, your race or color of your hair