Trust is the foundation of real teamwork (there is nothing touchy-feely about this).

Really great people rarely leave a healthy organization.

Team members who are not genuinely open with one another about their mistakes and weaknesses make it impossible to build a foundation for trust.

Building a cohesive leadership team is the first critical step that an organization must take if it is to have the best chance at success.

Choose your companions before you choose your road.

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).

If everything is important, then nothing is.