Working with people is difficult, but not impossible.

I'm better about things than about people. I'm more interested in people, but I'm better at ideas.

Do what you do best, and outsource the rest.

If you want it, measure it. If you can't measure it, forget it.

Adversarial power relationships only work if you never have to see or work with the bastards again.

Education gives you neither experience nor wisdom.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.