If your team is filled with people who work for the company, you'll soon be defeated by tribes of people who work for a cause.

Wouldn't it be great to be gifted? In fact It turns out that choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You're not born this way, you get this way.

Take a chance on your own abilities clearly, neither exaggerating them nor under-assessing them.

The only real help is self-help. Anything else is just designed to get you to the point where you can help yourself.

Ordinary thinking and ordinary effort are almost never enough to generate leadership.

While someone can attempt to shame you, shame must also be accepted to be effective. We can't make you feel shame without your participation.

When you focus on delighting an audience you care about, you strip the masses of their power.