The key to motivation is motive.

Time management is a misnomer, the challenge is to manage ourselves.

Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there," stop yourself. That thought is the problem.

My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on feelings.

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

You can't hold someone accountable for results if you supervise their methods.

Only 20 percent of employees working in large organizations surveyed feel their strengths are in play every day. Thus, eight our of ten employees surveyed feel somewhat miscast in their role.