As a leader, it is often better to ask the right questions and listen than to have all the answers.

A mere 7% of employees today fully understand their company's business strategies and what's expected of them in order to help achieve company goals.

Process improvement programs are like teaching people how to fish. Strategy maps and scorecards teach people where to fish.

Consistent alignment of capabilities and internal processes with the customer value proposition is the core of any strategy execution.

Without strong visionary leadership, no strategy will be executed effectively.

It bears repeating: you don't have to be good at everything.

Managing risk is very different from managing strategy. Risk management focuses on the negative-threats and failures rather than opportunities and successes.

Screening out peer pressure and conventional wisdom. It is so powerful, that most of us aren't even aware of how much it is influencing our decisions.

If you're the smartest person in the room, it can sometimes be hard to learn to delegate - the person to whom you're delegating will do the task worse than you would - and it will annoy you!

The better strategy is to focus on strengths and surround yourself with people who can complement your skills. However, you have to first do the analysis.

Authenticity is critical to leadership. That means trying to be yourself - this involves some self-disclosure, admitting what you don't know and being willing to ask questions.

As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.

YOU are your own guru. YOU are your own soul mate. YOU are powerful. Take the reigns and drive your carriage home to love.

There is nothing more valuable in the writing process than a friend to hold you accountable to your own potential.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

The anointing of the Holy Spirit is given to illuminate His Word, to open the Scriptures, and to place the spiritual man in direct communication with the mind of God.

Many of the earmark request forms are actually filled out by lobbyists and then just turned in by the member's staff to the appropriations committee.

Creatures with no dreams of their own can do naught but destroy the dreams of others.

You will miss her sometimes. Bear in mind she's trying to kill you. Bear in mind you have a life to live.

I'm trying to protect you. From myself. I don't do..." he swung a finger back and forth between us"...this.

People don't want quarter-inch drills. They want quarter-inch holes.