The real development I've seen of people in organizations, especially in big ones, comes from their being volunteers in a nonprofit organization - where you have responsibility, you see results, and you quickly learn what your values are. There is no better way to understand your strengths and discover where you belong than to volunteer in a nonprofit. That is probably the great opportunity for the social sector - and especially in its relationship to business.

In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.

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

Leadership is all about getting results.

The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.

In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world.

An employer has no business with a man's personality... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.