If you've got the platform and the ability to make a difference, then this goes beyond 'should' and reaches the level of 'must.' You must make a difference or you squander the opportunity. Wasting the opportunity both degrades your own ability to contribute and, more urgently, takes something away from the rest of us.

The way I understand gifts is that the giver must make a sacrifice, create an uneven exchange, bring himself closer to the recipient, create change and do it all with the right spirit.

Excellence isn’t about working extra hard to do what you’re told. It’s about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.

Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.

Measurement is fabulous. Unless you're busy measuring what's easy to measure as opposed to what's important

The enemy of creativity is fear.

The mirror we hold up to the person next to us is one of the most important pictures she will ever see.