The first step is to recognize what you need to know and why you need to know it.

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

Most of my work has been in corporations, studying how you build an organization that helps people to identify and work to their strengths.

Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time.

Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.

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.

Leaders are fascinated by future. You are a leader if and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress and deeply dissatisfied with status quo. Because in your head, you can see a better future. The friction between 'what is' and 'what could be' burns you, stirs you up, propels you. This is leadership.