What's measured improves

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

The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.

We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you’ve got ambition and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession, regardless of where you started out.

Teaching 23-year-olds in an MBA programme strikes me as largely a waste of time. They lack the background of experience. You can teach them skills - accounting and what have you - but you can't teach them management.

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

Don't take on things you don't believe in and that you yourself are not good at. Learn to say no. Effective leaders match the objective needs of their company with the subjective competencies. As a result, they get an enormous amount of things done fast.