You can find energizing moments in each aspect of your life, but to do so you must learn how to catch them, hold on to them, to feel the pull of their weight and allow yourself to follow where they lead.

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

Remember, what you focus on expands; results follow focus.

You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.

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.

If you want execution, hail only success. If you want creativity, hail risk, and remain neutral about success.

People quit managers, not jobs.