To operate based on conviction and belief requires an acceptance that your actions could get you fired. This is different from pig-headed bravado, and it is different from putting the company at risk.

Listening is not understanding the words of the question asked, listening is understanding why the question was asked in the first place.

Any parent who tells their kids that they can't attend a school play or go to a soccer match because they have to work is kidding themselves. It's OK to miss a game or two or a performance here and there, but it's not all right to miss the majority of them.

New ideas need audiences like flowers need bees. No matter how bright and colorful, they will die unless others work to spread them

Remaining calm in times of desperation makes way for opportunity.

Leaders volunteer to go first into danger. Their willingness to sacrifice for us is the reason we're inspired to follow.

Stress and anxiety at work have less to do with the work we do and more to do with weak management and leadership.