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.

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

Everyone can probably do at least one thing better than ten thousand other people.

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

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.

The best way to find out whether you're on the right path? Stop looking at the path.

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.