Nike doesn't want to make products for everyone - they want to make products for champions.

The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve.

There's only one of me. With you using the why in the center of your work helps me.

In this age of omniconnectedness, words like 'network,' 'community' and even 'friends' no longer mean what they used to. Networks don't exist on LinkedIn. A community is not something that happens on a blog or on Twitter. And a friend is more than someone whose online status you check.

Leaders don't convince people to follow them. Leaders walk forward alone and those who want to go down their path decide to follow.

Republicans are completely befuddled by Obama's 'star power' and don't seem to have a clear or effective strategy to compete.

Leadership is not achieved by an individual. Leadership is bestowed by the group.