Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.

Bosses and leaders everywhere should cherish the people who bring them bad news, disappointing data or hard problems.

A thinking partner who isn't an echo chamber... How many of us dare to have such collaborators?

If you have never failed at anything, then you haven't been trying hard enough, aren't very imaginative, or have had such extraordinarily good luck that you have come to believe you are invincible.

The best remote companies I've seen do almost everything online, via email and telephone. But they also get together face to face on a regular basis.

Instead, we have found ourselves gasping for air in a sea of corruption, dysfunction, environmental degradation, waste, disenchantment and inequality—and the harder we compete, the more unequal we become.

Companies don't have ideas; only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds and loyalty and trust they develop between each other. What matters is the mortar, not just the bricks.