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

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

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

Define excellence vividly, quantitatively. Paint a picture for your most talented employees of what excellence looks like. Keep everyone pushing and pushing toward the right-hand edge of the bell curve.

If we have to know without a doubt that the choices we are making are the perfect ones, we risk never making any choices at all.

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

Most of the time, our limitations are self-imposed.