If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.

The vast majority of organizations today have more than enough intelligence, experience and knowledge to be successful. What they lack is organizational health.

The team you belong to must come ahead of the team you lead: this is putting team results (e.g., organizational needs) ahead of individual agendas (e.g., the team or division you lead, your ego, your need for recognition, your career development, etc.) Confidentiality is respected downward more than it is respected upward. Organizational alignment is a direct result of this hierarchy (if it were the other way around, organizational alignment would be very difficult to achieve).

Leaders must display their humanness. Those under their authority must be empowered & have the courage to engage in honest dialogue.

Really great people rarely leave a healthy organization.

On a team, trust is all about vulnerability, which is difficult for most people.

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