Trust is built on telling the truth, not telling people what they want to hear.

The responsibility of leadership is not taken, it is given. Only when others choose to follow us can we truly lead.

My concern is that we live in an economy in which stabbing someone and waiting for them to complain before we remove the knife has become the normal way of doing business. When did we lose sight of the fact that it's not nice to stab people in the first place?

You are authentic when everything you say and everything you do you ACTUALLY believe.

When we can communicate from the inside out, we're talking directly to the part of the brain that controls behavior, and then we allow people to rationalize it with the tangible things we say and do. This is where gut decisions come from.

Leaders may inspire, but only when the people decide to act does the leader's vision become a movement.

When I was in college, my school newspaper accepted an ad from a Holocaust revisionist organization. This would have been offensive on most college campuses across the country, but I went to a school with a very large Jewish population, so the ad, as you might expect, stirred absolute outrage.