An organization can execute only if the leader's heart and soul are immersed in the company. Leading is more than thinking big, or schmo...

To attain knowledge add things every day. To attain wisdom subtract things every day. Lao-tzu Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less ...

Essentialism is not about how to get more things done; it's about how to get the right  things done. It doesn't mean just doing less...

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

Growing up in Athens, I was brought up on the classics and the Greek myths. They were taught to me not as ancient history, as my children le...

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, ...

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to...

I begin with humility, I act with humility, I end with humility. Humility leads to clarity. Humility leads to an open mind and a forgiving h...

Even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despite, against our will, comes wisdom to us b...

Resilience is the virtue that enables people to move through hardship and become better. No one escapes pain, fear, and suffering. Yet from ...

“We don’t eat it all; we don’t plant it all.” I Am the Grand Canyon: The Story of the Havasupai People by Stephen Hirst. Grand Canyon Assoc...

We have thousands of times more available information than Thomas Jefferson or Abraham Lincoln. Yet which of us would think ourselves a tho...

We hypothesized a phenomenon that we term myopic misery. According to our hypothesis, sadness increases impatience and creates a myopic fo...

Our beliefs and assumptions are skewed by personal biases and not to be fully trusted. Often they haven't been tested or revised based ...

Skills and experience might land you a leadership position with a large business organization, but they don’t make you a true leader. ...

The mystique of leadership, be it educational, political, religious, commercial or whatever, is next to impossible to describe, but where...

Any method of negotiation may be fairly judged by three criteria: It should produce a wise agreement if agreement is possible. It should ...

There is this idea that people are meaner than they used to be because of the internet... People are no meaner than they used to be - peo...

Mandela loved to reminisce about his boyhood and his lazy afternoons herding cattle. "You know," he would say, "you can ...