If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it. The risk and the dependency are too great.

The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and out there, but that we are willfully blind to.

It is nobody's right to be waited on and nobody's fate to do the waiting.

Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success.

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

As a mother, I work hard every day and I expect that work to be recognized and appreciated. Because I work for and with human beings, sometimes they're grateful and sometimes they aren't.

The healthiest companies are always characterized by organic talent development.