A great idea is not enough.

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

... people are capable of more than their organizational positions ever give them the tools or the time or the opportunity to demonstrate.

Corporate men and women, once divided by striking differences in opportunity for career growth, have come to share career chaos.

During the Boom Years, it was so easy to lose sight of basic values. For example, there was lots of nonsense said and written about the so-called "New Economy." Some people said all economic laws have been overturned! Then all the problems developed. Corporations were heavily fined for illegalities. Many of their senior-level executives were indicted, convicted, and sent to prison.

You've no future unless you add value, create projects.

A self-reinforcing upward spiral: performance stimulating pride stimulating performance.