Obviously, you have to know what you need now and what you will soon need, then hire or promote from within to meet those needs.

In a war, no matter the outcome of a certain skirmish or battle, the winner is the party whose attitudes, behaviors and preoccupations come to dominate the postwar landscape. By this measure, the outcome of the gender wars, if wars they were, is clear: women won.

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

When you feel as though you can't do something, the simple antidote is action: Begin doing it. Start the process, even if it's just a simple step, and don't stop at the beginning.

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

It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.

Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.