The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.

You cannot learn very much about excellence from studying failure.

Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.

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

Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.

Too many of the organizations I have observed resemble a farm in Kansas. They have lots of fences and silos as well as a storm cellar.

There's something unique and different that makes a leader, and it's not about creativity or courage or integrity.... A leader's job is to rally people toward a better future.