No one does the leader's job flawlessly, believe me. You've got to make mistakes and learn from them. Yankees manager Joe Torree got...

Know thyself - it's advice as old as the hills, and it's the core of authenticity. When you know yourself, you are comfortable with ...

It’s all about action. Going out there, doing it, and taking all your negative bullshit along for the ride. It’s never going to get any bett...

Give some thought to all the people who have achieved something great, only to quickly fade into obscurity. I’m sure you can think of a few,...

Over my 30-year career with Lockheed Martin, I've learned that leadership skills are perishable. It takes a devotion to listening and le...

When I took command of Benfold, I realized that no one, including me, is capable of making every decision. I would have to train my people t...

Never allow yourself to be offended by someone who is learning his job. Marvin J. Ashton ' Progress through Change ," General Confe...

  It has been said by Bruce Barton that, “When we’re through changing, we’re through.” There is no age when we are too old or too young or j...

A man who sits “on the cushion of advantages, goes to sleep. When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has been put on his wits, … [learns]...

Leading companies today asks for a different level of self-awareness from CEOs. Previously they may often have succeeded by “listening to wi...

Financial Times : A frequent argument is that Germans are not capable of reforming themselves. Angela Merkel : I would say this is utter non...

When we reexamine what we really want, we realize that everything that happens in our lives — every misfortune, every slight, every loss, an...

Andy Grove once told me, over a cup of Jamocha Almond Fudge ice cream at Baskin Robbins in Los Altos, “F*@&ing Steve Jobs always gets ...

Roosevelt is no more infallible than the rest of us. Over and over again I have seen him pause when he had decided upon his line of action, ...

What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are arou...

You might find the prospect of modeling intellectual rigor for your team or organization daunting. How do you do it with so many demands on ...

There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know. W.E.B. Du Bois Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography o...

Ultimately, I realized that what’s most important is to be a learner. Many people know a lot about a little, but there are only a few people...

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently.  Sara Bla...

There's nothing new in human nature. The only thing that changes are the names we give things. If you want to understand the twentieth c...