If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.

If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.

We hear a lot about identity theft when someone takes your wallet and pretends to be you and uses your credit cards. But the more serious identity theft is to get swallowed up in other people's definition of you.

While values drive behaviors, principles govern consequences.

Be proactive. Ask yourself, "Are my actions based on self-chosen values or on my moods, feelings and circumstances?"

I don't read blogs but occasionally people tell me about what they contain, and I do take questions that come from blogs.

Principles are natural laws that are external to us and that ultimately control the consequences of our actions. Values are internal and subjective and represent that which we feel strongest about in guiding our behavior.