Strengths are not activities you're good at, they're activities that strengthen you. A strength is an activity that before you're doing it you look forward to doing it; while you're doing it, time goes by quickly and you can concentrate; after you've done it, it seems to fulfill a need of yours.

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

My point is, people really don't change very much.

American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.

Great leaders rally people to a better future.

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

Teach your children how to identify their own strengths and challenge them to contribute these strengths to others.