People and their managers are working so hard to be sure things are done right, that they have hardly have time to decide if they are doing the right things.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".

Start small, make a promise and keep it. Then, make larger promises and keep them. Eventually, your honor will become greater than your moods or your circumstances, which includes your medical condition and other people's stereotypic observations. Once you overcome this comparison based mentality, your confidence will soar.

Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per se, offers no deep, lasting satisfaction or sense of fulfillment. The pleasure-centered person, too soon bored with each succeeding level of "fun," constantly cries for more and more. So the next new pleasure has to be bigger and better, more exciting, with a bigger "high." A person in this state becomes almost entirely narcissistic, interpreting all of life in terms of the pleasure it provides to the self here and now.

Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.

Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience.