The ability to establish, grow, extend, and restore trust is the key professional and personal competency of our time.

Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.

Someone once inquired of a Far Eastern Zen master, who had a great serenity and peace about him no matter what pressures he faced, "How do you maintain that serenity and peace?" He replied, "I never leave my place of meditation." He meditated early in the morning and for the rest of the day, he carried the peace of those moments with him in his mind and heart.

Synergy: The combined effect of individuals in collaboration that exceeds the sum of their individual effects.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success

If we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But if we want to make significant, quantum change, we need to work on our basic paradigms.

If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. You are a disciple, a follower, of your own deep values and their source. And you have the will, the integrity, to subordinate your feelings, your impulses, your moods to those values.