I don't consider myself an expert in the why.

Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail. We very often confuse personality with leadership. In other words, leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person.

True love exists in business. It's when Employee and Employer are amazingly grateful to have each other. We should all have true love at work.

Stories are attempts to share our values and beliefs. Storytelling is worthwhile when it tells what we stand for.

In the military, they give medals for people who are willing to sacrifice themselves so that others may survive. In business, we give bonuses to people who sacrifice others.

Great companies don’t hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire already motivated people and inspire them. People are either motivated or they are not. Unless you give motivated people something to believe in, something bigger than their job to work toward, they will motivate themselves to find a new job and you’ll be stuck with whoever’s left.

A leader, first and foremost, is human. Only when we have the strength to show our vulnerability can we truly lead.