Promotion should not be more important than accomplishment, or avoiding instability more important than taking the right risk.

You cannot build performance on weaknesses. You can build only on strengths.

The young knowledge worker whose job is too small to challenge and test his abilities either leaves or declines rapidly into premature middle age, soured, cynical, unproductive.

Once the facts are clear the decisions jump out at you.

Leadership is defined by results not attributes.

For the social ecologist language is not "communication." It is not just "message." It is substance. It is the cement that holds humanity together. It creates community and communication. ...Social ecologists need not be "great" writers; but they have to be respectful writers, caring writers.

Elephants have a hard time adapting. Cockroaches outlive everything.