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

As a general rule, people tend to do best what they enjoy doing most.

You won't find a CEO who doesn't talk about a 'powerful culture' as a source of competitive advantage. At the same time, you'd be hard-pressed to find a CEO who has much of a clue about the strength of that culture.

Americans just love convening. They are a convention-happy country and they love to get together to talk.

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

The talented employee may join a company because of its charismatic leaders, its generous benefits, and its world-class training programs, but how long that employee stays and how productive he is while he is there is determined by his relationship with his immediate supervisor.

You shouldn't take pride in your natural talents any more than you should take pride in your sex, your race or color of your hair