Keep reminding people of what's important and that their fates are correlated.

Walt Disney, of all people, did a good job of describing his own netony. "People who have worked with me say I am 'innocence in action,'" he wrote. "They say I have the innocence and unselfconsciousness of a child. Maybe I have. I still look at the world with uncontaminated wonder."

Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.

Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.

Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.

A leader is someone whose actions have the most profound consequences on other people's lives, for better or worse, sometime forever and ever.

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.