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.

Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you're actually doing every day.

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

The time you spend with your best (employees) is, quite simply, your most productive time.

Remember, what you focus on expands; results follow focus.

We live with them every day, and they come so easily to us that they cease to be precious.

Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.