No" is always an easier stand than "Yes.

It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is.

Everything looks like a failure in the middle.

Life is full of cycles that have a way of perpetuating themselves. Success and failure both feed on themselves. Things can go downhill quickly, with people bogged down by ineffective behavior and poor teamwork, unless leaders intervene to shift the cycle.

A basic truth of management - if not of life - is that nearly everything looks like a failure in the middle.

Time is a function of impact. The longer a book of mine has been in print, the greater its impact seems to be as people absorb and digest my ideas. I am especially proud of The Change Master: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the American Corporation, first published in 1983, because it raised questions and addressed issues at a time when so many great changes were occurring in our society, indeed throughout the world.

Confidence makes you willing to try harder and attracts the kind of support from others that makes "winning" possible.