A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.

Most of the time, our limitations are self-imposed.

When you feel as though you can't do something, the simple antidote is action: Begin doing it. Start the process, even if it's just a simple step, and don't stop at the beginning.

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.

The opposite of a leader isn't a follower. The opposite of a leader is a pessimist.

Clarity is the preoccupation of the effective leader. If you do nothing else as a leader, be clear.

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