Born of the impossibly varied options we have to amuse ourselves, cutting-edge companies are finding innovative ways to tailor our entertainment choices to who we are, relieving us of the burden of finding the diamond in the rough of 500 TV channels or thousands of movies and music albums released every year.

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

I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.

The best strategy for building a competitive organization is to help individuals become more of who they are.

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.

Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.

As with all catalysts, the manager's function is to speed up the reaction between two substances, thus creating the desired end product. Specifically, the manager creates performance in each employee by speeding up the reaction between the employee's talent and the company's goals, and between the employee's talent and the customer's needs.