Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

To succeed in this new world, we will have to learn, first, who we are. Few people, even highly successful people, can answer the questions, Do you know what you're good at? Do you know what you need to learn so that you get the full benefit of your strengths? Few have even asked themselves these questions.

Salvation by society failed the most where it promised the most, in the communist countries. But it also failed in the West. Practically no government program enacted since the 1950s in the Western world - or in the communist countries - has been successful.

Leadership is all about getting results.

Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast.

Great wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data.

A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.