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

American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.

There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything.

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.

Gen Y is really quite distinct from Gen X; it's really self-involved and very narcissistic - their cameras are filled with pictures of themselves; Facebook, it's about me. It's a generation that's been pampered by their parents and their schools, given prizes for just taking part.

"Freedom, individualism, authenticity and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: Sustained success comes only when you take what's unique about you and figure out how to make it useful!"

People quit managers, not jobs.