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.

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.

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

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

I regularly take my entrepreneurship students out walking because I want to get them in the habit of noticing and thinking about what they notice. They have to leave their phones behind to learn the basic lesson: Be where you are.

Silence is the language of inertia.

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