An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones, and live with paradox will be the effective leader's premier trait.

We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.

Ready, fire, aim. Do it! Make it happen! Action counts. No one ever sat their way to success.

One reason (among many) that women may well take over the world of "virtual enterprises" is that they seem to have a greater instinct for networking. And the unfettered-by-machismo males who have taken to networking will do better than those who shun it as "sissy stuff." But truth is, it has always been the age of "networkers"; and in an era where organizations depend more and more on tenuously connected outsiders to get the job done, it will only become so.

The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.

As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.

Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.