Leaders are fascinated by future. You are a leader if and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress and deeply dissatisfied with status quo. Because in your head, you can see a better future. The friction between 'what is' and 'what could be' burns you, stirs you up, propels you. This is leadership.

No idea will work if people don't trust your intentions toward them.

There are "four keys" to becoming an excellent manager: finding the right fit for employees, focusing on strengths of employees, defining the right results, and hiring for talent - not just knowledge and skills.

Obviously, you have to know what you need now and what you will soon need, then hire or promote from within to meet those needs.

Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.

We dream of having a clean house - but who dreams of actually doing the cleaning? We don't have to dream about doing the work, because doing the work is always within our grasp; the dream, in this sense, is to attain the goal without the work.

Most of my work has been in corporations, studying how you build an organization that helps people to identify and work to their strengths.