If you want to build a high performance organization, you've got to play chess, not checkers.

Others control our opportunities, we control our readiness.

She was like John Rambo meets Polly Pocket; Dakota Fanning crossed with Death Wish 4.

Many of our leadership practices have gone from being tried and true to being tired and tarnished.

Cookbooks are almost a substitution for a lost sense of culture. People want some other life than the one they're living, so they buy a cookbook with pictures and imagine themselves as part of that life.

Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team.

The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.