The best strategy for building a competitive organization is to help individuals become more of who they are.

The best way to find out whether you're on the right path? Stop looking at the path.

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.

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

As with all catalysts, the manager's function is to speed up the reaction between two substances, thus creating the desired end product. Specifically, the manager creates performance in each employee by speeding up the reaction between the employee's talent and the company's goals, and between the employee's talent and the customer's needs.

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

Every time you make a rule you take away a choice, and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning.