My sister made certain choices about the life she wanted. Those choices include a steady job, a husband and children. But balance and stability come at a cost. It is harder for her to be spontaneous. It is harder to just up and leave.

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why.

Because a true sense of purpose is deeply emotional, it serves as a compass to guide us to act in a way completely consistent with our values and beliefs. Purpose does not need to involve calculations or numbers. Purpose is about the quality of life. Purpose is human, not economic.

Bad leaders believe that they have to project control at all times.

Fight against something and you focus on the thing you hate. Fight for something and you focus on the thing you love.

The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven't figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, 'There's something fishy about you.'