You cannot learn very much about excellence from studying failure.

You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.

People should be hired "as is" and their managers then help them to develop their individual strengths while completing tasks for which they have the greatest aptitude and in which they have the greatest interest.

The difference between a pebble and a mountain lies in whom you ask to move it.

The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.

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

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.