All the great organizations have great managers at all levels who recognize where their culture is getting stronger and where it is getting weaker. There are always reasons why.

If we have to know without a doubt that the choices we are making are the perfect ones, we risk never making any choices at all.

Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.

No idea will work if people don't trust your intentions toward them.

Managers are, and should be, totally responsible for recognizing individual strengths (both natural talents and skills), getting those strengths in proper alignment (i.e. in the right "seats"), and then leveraging them.

There are "four keys" to becoming an excellent manager: finding the right fit for employees, focusing on strengths of employees, defining the right results, and hiring for talent - not just knowledge and skills.

Everyone can probably do at least one thing better than ten thousand other people.