Trust is clearly a key competency. A competency or skill that can be learned, taught, and improved and one that talent can be screened for.

You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

If you want to be trusted, be trustworthy.

We can't live without eating, but we don't live to eat.

There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.

Common sense is not always common practice.

It is possible to be busy-very busy-without being very effective.