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.

The talented employee may join a company because of its charismatic leaders, its generous benefits, and its world-class training programs, but how long that employee stays and how productive he is while he is there is determined by his relationship with his immediate supervisor.

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

Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.

Getting after this terrible, avoidable waste of human potentiality is what gets me out of bed every morning.

Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.

Leaders are fascinated by future. You are a leader if and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress and deeply dissatisfied with status quo. Because in your head, you can see a better future. The friction between 'what is' and 'what could be' burns you, stirs you up, propels you. This is leadership.