You shouldn't take pride in your natural talents any more than you should take pride in your sex, your race or color of your hair

Companies don't have one culture. They have as many as they have supervisors or managers. You want to build a strong culture? Hold every manager accountable for the culture that he or she builds.

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

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

There has to be a way to redirect employee's driving ambition and to channel it more productively. There is. Create heroes in every role. Make every role, performed at excellence, a respected profession.

The fact remains that we have an obligation to discover what we really, really, really want to do (which is probably what we do best) and then do it even better... much better.

Discover what you don't like doing and stop doing it.