Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer.

When we confront facts and fears, we achieve real power and unleash our capacity for change.

A fantastic model of collaboration: thinking partners who aren't echo chambers.

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

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

[For constructive conflict,] we have to resist the neurobiological drive which means that we really prefer people mostly like ourselves.

Companies don't have ideas. Only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds of loyalty and trust they develop around each other.