Due to budget cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.

If you have to have a policy manual, publish the 'Ten Commandments.'

If people are coming to work excited. . . if they're making mistakes freely and fearlessly. . . if they're having fun. . . if they're concentrating on doing things rather than preparing reports and going to meetings-then somewhere you have leaders.

The world is divided into two classes of people: the few people who make good on their promises (even if they don't promise as much), and the many who don't. Get in Column A and stay there. You'll be very valuable wherever you are.

When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure.

Managers must have the discipline not to keep pulling up the flowers to see if their roots are healthy.

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.