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.

Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.

If we have to know without a doubt that the choices we are making are the perfect ones, we risk never making any choices at all.

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

Most of the time, our limitations are self-imposed.

The opposite of a leader isn't a follower. The opposite of a leader is a pessimist.

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.