Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.

If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.

If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?

The unthinkable is thinkable. No: likely.

We're going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business - the attribute that is highest in demand and shortest in supply.

Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at.

The new idea either finds a champion or it dies. No ordinary involvement with a new idea provides the energy required to cope with the indifference and resistance that change provokes.