Systematic decision review also shows executives their own weaknesses, particularly the areas in which they are simply incompetent. In these areas, smart executives don't make decisions or take actions. They delegate.

The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.

Understanding our strengths, articulating our values, knowing where we belong -- these are also essential to addressing one of the great challenges of organizations: improving the abysmally low productivity of knowledge workers.

We always remember best the irrelevant.

It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.

The need to manage oneself is creating a revolution in human affairs.

Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves - their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.