Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don't forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think; unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently.

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.

Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others.

Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.

To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.

At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourself.