A core value is something you're willing to get punished for.

Choose your companions before you choose your road.

. . . his biggest problem was his need for a problem.

As a leader, you're probably not doing a good job unless your employees can do a good impression of you when you're not around.

A functional team must make the collective results of the group more important to each individual than individual members' goals.

If the CEO's behavior is 95 per cent healthy while the rest of the organization is only 50 per cent sound, it is more effective to focus on that crucial and leveraged 5 per cent that makes up the reminder of the CEO's behavior.

Teamwork remains a sustainable competitive advantage that has been largely untapped because it is hard to measure (teamwork impacts the outcome of an organization in such comprehensive and invasive ways that it's virtually impossible to isolate it as a single variable) and because it is extremely hard to achieve (it requires levels of courage and discipline that few executives possess) - ironically, building a strong team is very simple (it doesn't require masterful insights or tactics).